{"id":11192,"date":"2014-10-26T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11192"},"modified":"2014-10-26T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:27:15","slug":"tearing-down-an-elephant-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/tearing-down-an-elephant-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearing down an Elephant Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/800px-CDAA_Elmendorf_AFB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11144\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/800px-CDAA_Elmendorf_AFB.jpg\" alt=\"800px-CDAA_Elmendorf_AFB\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/800px-CDAA_Elmendorf_AFB.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/800px-CDAA_Elmendorf_AFB-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>This past week, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/wullenweber\/\" target=\"_blank\">a couple of articles about\u00a0Wullenweber\u00a0antennas<\/a> (a.k.a. &#8220;Elephant Cages&#8221;). Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aborgnino\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Borgnino<\/a> who shares this article by Joseph Trevithick<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/the-u-s-air-force-is-tearing-down-a-giant-spy-antenna-610a7b7158cd\" target=\"_blank\">via Medium.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The U.S. Air Force Is Tearing Down a Giant Spy Antenna: \u2019Elephant cages\u2019 are a dying breed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force has started tearing down a massive antenna in Japan. Once used to scan airwaves around the world, these systems have become obsolete as countries change how they communicate.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 15, workers began removing the antenna\u2014designated AN\/FLR-9\u2014at Misawa air base in Japan. The demolition has been on the flying branch\u2019s agenda for more than a year now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology and fiscal constraints have driven Misawa Security Operations Center to seek new ways of doing business,\u201d Col. Joseph Winters told Air Force reporters. The antenna\u2014which is almost 1,500 feet wide\u2014should be completely gone by the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Misawa\u2019s system was one of eight AN\/FLR-9s the Pentagon built in the United States, Europe and the Pacific during the 1960s. The site actually has three concentric rings of smaller antennae, hence the popular \u201celephant cage\u201d nickname.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/the-u-s-air-force-is-tearing-down-a-giant-spy-antenna-610a7b7158cd\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading on Medium.com&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I posted a couple of articles about\u00a0Wullenweber\u00a0antennas (a.k.a. &#8220;Elephant Cages&#8221;). Many thanks to Andrea Borgnino who shares this article by Joseph Trevithick via Medium.com: The U.S. Air Force Is Tearing Down a Giant Spy Antenna: \u2019Elephant cages\u2019 are a dying breed The U.S. Air Force has started tearing down a massive antenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,288,43],"tags":[3338,752,3067,3335,3336,3337],"class_list":["post-11192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-circular-receiving-antennas","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-elephant-cages","tag-wullenweber","tag-wullenweber-antennas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Uw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}