USN Launches 'Cobra King' Spy Ship

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The U.S. military has declared operational a high-tech new radar ship. Howard O. Lorenzen, named for a pioneering spy satellite inventor, is better known by her interchangeable code names “Cobra Judy Replacement” and “Cobra King.”

Officially a “missile range instrumentation ship,” in fact Cobra Judy Replacement, a.k.a. Cobra King, is a combination spy vessel, test asset and diplomatic tool—and a key part of a high-tech military team that, just six years ago, proved it could destroy a satellite in orbit with a ship-launched missile.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/67a1bbd70102
 
Published on Nov 30, 2012

Time lapse video shows a shipboard installation of the Cobra Judy Replacement program's X- and S-band antennas onto the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen.

http://youtu.be/IhN-Z_qjAng
 

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