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The Solid State Phased Array Radar System is a phased array radar with 2500 "solid state transmitter" modules.<ref>http://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/rsl-documents/research/SARlab/GMTILiterature/PDF/Skolnik90.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

It began replacing PAVE PAWS when the first AN/FPS-115 face was taken off-line for the radar upgrade. New [[PAVE PAWS#Replacement|AN/FPS-123]] Early Warning Radars became operational in (Beale) and (Cape Cod) in each base's existing PAVE PAWS "Scanner Building".<ref name=HAER>{{Cite report |title=Photographs [and<nowiki>]</nowiki> Written Historical and Descriptive Data: Cape Cod Air Station Technical Facility/Scanner Building and Power Plant |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1600/ma1633/data/ma1633data.pdf |access-date=2014-06-10 |quote=Technical Facility/Scanner Building (HAER No. MA-151-A), which houses the AN/FPS-1152 radar and related equipment… PAVE PAWS Site 1 … AN/FSS-7…designed by [[Avco|Avco Electronics Division]]… The first two PAVE PAWS sites in Massachusetts and California represented the first two-faced phased array radars deployed by the U.S. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715034251/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1600/ma1633/data/ma1633data.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-15 }}</ref>

In 2001 SSPARS equipment included:

* '''Raytheon [[AN/FPS-123]] PAVE PAWS Radar'''<ref>{{Cite report |title=Communications-Electronics (C-E) Managers Handbook |url=http://nato.radioscanner.ru/files/article63/communications_elect.pdf |access-date=2014-03-13 |quote=AN/FPS-49 has a traditional azimuth bearing assembly (race and steel balls) while the AN/FPS-92 has a hydrostatic bearing (antenna floats on a high pressure film of hydraulic fluid). AN/FPQ-16 Radar Set, Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System - PARCS: PARCS is a single faced phased array radar system consisting of AN/FPQ-16 radar and an AN/FSQ-100 computer system located at Cavalier AFS, ND. The primary mission of the PARCS is to provide the [[Cheyenne Mountain Complex|CMC]] with TW/AA data on all SLBMs penetrating the coverage area. ... FORCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (FMS) PROVIDES THE CONUS NORAD REGION COMMANDER WITH TIME SENSITIVE INFORMATION}}</ref> at [[Beale Air Force Base|Beale]] (FPS-115 [[Initial operating capability|IOC]] April 4, 1980) and Cape Cod (FPS-115 [[Initial operating capability|IOC]] August 15, 1980)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/pavepaws.htm|title=AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS Radar|first=John|last=Pike}}</ref>

* '''Raytheon [[PAVE PAWS#Replacement|AN/FPS-120]] Solid State Phased Array Radar''' at [[Thule Air Station|Thule]] ("2QFY87")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/clearu.htm|title=Clear Upgrade (U)}}</ref> with greater radar capabilities than the FPS-115 PAVE PAWS radars

* '''Raytheon [[PAVE PAWS#Replacement|AN/FPS-126]] Solid State Phased Array Radar''' at [[RAF Fylingdales|Fylingdales]] with three faces for 360 degree coverage (constructed August 1989-October 1992)<ref name=UK>{{Cite book |last=Stocker |first=Jeremy |editor=Gray, Colin S. |editor2=Murray, Williamson |year=2004 |isbn=0-203-30963-4 |publisher=Frank Cass |title=Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence 1942-2002 |url=http://sobchak.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/britain-and-ballistic-missile-1942-2002.pdf |issn=1473-6403 |access-date=2014-03-09 |quote=in March 1963 an Air Ministry review of ABM systems said of MIDAS that 'performance to date has been disappointing'.⁷⁸ … A teletype circuit was established between NORAD and the ADOC in Britain to pass information derived from Site 1 at Thule.⁹⁵ This was supplemented by a voice circuit with agreed formatted messages, and both were operational by October 1960. … AN/FPS-49 Range resolution 240 nm Maximum range 2,650 nm Minimum target at 1,650 m 2.8 m² Impact accuracy North America 135 nm}}</ref>

*'''Raytheon AN/FPS-120<ref name=GlobalSecurityClear>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/clear.htm|title=Clear AFS|first=John|last=Pike}}</ref> Solid State Phased Array Radar''' using an older antenna from the 1987<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radomes.org/museum/parsehtml.php?html=EldoradoAFSPAVEPAWSTXdedication87.html&type=doc_html|title=Eldorado AFS Dedication - 1987}}</ref> [[Eldorado Air Force Station|PAVE PAWS EWR in Texas]] (groundbreaking April 16, 1998,{{r|GlobalSecurityClear}} for the "Clear Radar Upgrade")<ref>{{Cite web |title=AN/FPS-120 Solid State Phased-Array System [SSPARS]: Clear Radar Upgrade |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sspars.htm |publisher=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=2014-03-08}}</ref>