“Elephant Cage” at Misawa air base to be dismantled

The AN/FLR-9 antennae complex, known as the “Elephant Cage”, at Misawa Air Base, Japan, is slated to be decommissioned and dismantled in 2013.

This is one of two arrays established in Japan; the other closed at Yomitan, Okinawa, in 2007.

[thumb]http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/misawa-to-tear-down-massive-elephant-cage-antennae-1.197638[/thumb]