S.Korea deploys Firefinder radar after N.Korea barrage

AFP
Friday, February 5, 2010

South Korea said Friday it had deployed advanced weapons-tracking radar systems on islands near its disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea following last week’s artillery barrages by the North.

Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young told lawmakers the AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder systems had been set up on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands.

“A few days ago, deployment of anti-artillery radar systems was completed,” the minister was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.

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The system is designed to determine where incoming artillery and rocket fire originated, to allow for a possible counter-attack.

After declaring two “no sail” zones, the communist state last week fired 370 shells into the sea near the border over three straight days, heightening tensions on the Korean peninsula.

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