What is "early warning radar"

Usage examples of "early warning radar".

Still, the helicopter-known as the Mean Machine among the Western Forces-had to fly in such a way as to evade the Circle's rudimentary, but still potent early warning radar system.

The jet fighters were on armed air patrol when the PAAC Early Warning Radar net detected an unidentified aircraft coming out of the Badlands.

His preflight briefing officers had assured him that the enemy didn't have any kind of early warning radar system.

The AEWR (Airborne Early Warning Radar) had recorded signs of a staggered sector scramble amongst border squadrons of the Red Air Force and this, in conjunction with radio- and code-monitoring which had shown signs of furious code-communication between sections of the Red Air Force, and between the First Secretary and the Admiral of the Red Banner Northern Fleet, as well as Russian ships in the Mediterranean - all of this evidence amounted to a sighting of Gant lifting clear of the runway at Bilyarsk.

Then it opened its ears, watching the flow of sensory data from surveillance cams and early warning radar and motion sensors.

Or perhaps a Strategic Air Command bomber testing out the DEW-line - the Americans' distant early warning radar system - or even some civilian proving flight on a new trans-polar route.