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{{Short description|American radar network}}

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[[File:PAVE PAWS&BMEWS.svg|thumb|300px|Coverage of the original [[PAVE PAWS]] and [[BMEWS]] systems, later upgraded to SSPARS and eventually to UEWR]]

[[File:Radar RAF Fylingdales.jpg|thumb|BMEWS solid-state phased-array radar at [[RAF Fylingdales]]]]

The '''Solid State Phased Array Radar System'''{{r|Chapman}} ('''SSPARS'''), [[colloquialism|colloquially]] '''Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar network''' ('''BMEWS radar network'''),<ref>{{Cite report |editor1=Carter, Austin |editor2=Mattorano, Gino |year=2004 |title=Space Command Almanac 2004-2005 |url=http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-060316-011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711202348/http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-060316-011.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 July 2006 |publisher=HQ AFSPACECOMM Public Affairs }}</ref> is a [[United States Space Force]] radar, computer, and communications system for missile warning and space surveillance. There are SSPARS systems at five sites: [[Beale Air Force Base]], CA, [[Cape Cod Space Force Station]], MA, [[Clear Space Force Station]], AK, [[RAF Fylingdales]], UK, and [[Pituffik Space Base]], Greenland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Operations, Maintenance and Support for the Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) at 5 Geographically Separated Units WorldWide |url=https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=caf2eb4dbcca881980fb2e403a8e3194&_cview=0 |number=FA2517-04-R-0016 |publisher=FedBizOpps.gov |access-date=2014-03-13}}</ref> The system completed replacement of the [[Ballistic Missile Early Warning System|RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System]] when the last SSPAR wasbecame operational at then-[[Clear Space Force Station|Clear Air Force Station]] in 2001.{{r|Chapman}}

==Classification of radar systems==

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==See Alsoalso==

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*[[List of radars]]