Weather sensing radar is used by the military for both air traffic control and aircraft. Air traffic control needs to know what weather-related events are near the airport that will affect operations.
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Radar was originally developed to detect enemy aircraft during World War II, but it is now widely used in everything from police speed-detector guns to weather forecasting .
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Radars today are used to detect and track aircraft, spacecraft, and ships at sea as well as insects and birds in the atmosphere; measure the speed of automobiles; map the surface of the earth from space; and measure properties of the atmosphere and oceans.
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