anti-Iran radar

A 14-plane US airlift lands high-powered FBX radar in Israel with US personnel

DEBKAfile Special Report

September 27, 2008, 5:17 PM (GMT+02:00)

Unloading high-powered US anti-missile radar in Israel

Huge US Air Force C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Gobemaster III transports have ferried the high-powered FBX-T anti-missile radar to Israel’s Nevatim Air Base south of Beersheba. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the transportable radar surveillance/forward-based X-band radar was accompanied by some 120 American European Command personnel. The area of its deployment at the Negev base has been fenced off and made off-limits to non-American personnel. 
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14 planes, 120 USA troops, for just one FBX-T radar?

Get ready set ....

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Update:

From our source inside Beltway.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is a photo of an offshore FBX-T.  We have many forward sensor stations like this, such as in Poland, Czech Republic, etc.  And many on our Aegis cruisers.
 
The Israeli installation adds to the over-lapping grid of radar we are establishing.  Having forward sensors ringing the Middle East and N Korea adds to our probability of detecting launch phase trajectories of ICBM's, that is the key.  Knowing the destination and range of an ICBM tells us whether it is a test or a hostile launch so that we can respond accordingly.
 
In a conflict, Iran will likely launch many Shahabs, before and during, hoping to mask their real target by over-whelming our detection.  ICBM's are the primary threat to us and our allies, as they are the most deliverable ordnance we face.  The global network of detection eventually neutralizes that problem.
 
Having a very timely and accurate detection of test launches has an underlying goal, finding Iran's hidden launch sites.  Iran has very hardened sites in uncertain locations.  Launch phase detection and our subsequent "triangulation" spots those sites.
 
The reason the Ruskies are so mad about Poland, etc. is that they are trying to sell weapon systems to Iran and our radar defenses make those systems obsolete and hard to sell.  We want Russia, Iran, N Korea out of the ICBM business for good and this global system makes their efforts futile and not marketable to say a Venezuela or Cuba....

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