**This is just fascinating to me... how do you do that?**It's the Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System. It's a weird view, because usually—as you can see in the second image—it propels itself.
The platform—built by the Russians using a Norwegian twin-hulled oil platform design—is 380 feet long and 280 feet tall to the top of the main radar dome. Designed to work under any kind of weather, the 50,000-ton behemoth only moves a maximum of 10 degrees of its horizontal base using passive stabilization.
According to Wikipedia, the SBX "has been moved to offshore Hawaii from its Aleutian Islands base in Alaska as of June 23, 2009. The reason: A potential North Korean missile launch that may hit the sea only 310 miles from US territory.
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