Wake Island in Indo-Pacific Strategy

In mid-December 2024, U. S. Marines of the 12th Marine Littoral (meaning ashore) Anti-Air Battalion (12th LAAB) trained on Wake Island for a long-distance tactical air surveillance raid. In this first field training of the recently activated battalion, the Marines deployed a state-of-the-art AN/TPS-80 radar complex (Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar), which is an air surveillance system that can detect, identify, and track multiple types of...

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