Iran has repeatedly and methodically targeted U.S. missile defense infrastructure in response to Operation Epic Fury.
The Pentagon has confirmed an Iranian strike on a radar system at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan valued at $300 million, and Iran's response – called Operation True Promise 4 – has surgically focused on targeting the detection systems that underpin the entire U.S. defensive architecture in West Asia, reported Monthly Review Online.
“The AN-TPY/2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery, enabling the launch of interceptor missiles and contributing to a networked air defense picture,” munitions specialist N.R. Jenzen-Jones told CNN last week. “It also happens to be an incredibly expensive piece of kit."
THAAD, short for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a missile defense system that functions with X-band AN/TPY-2 array and other radars to locate incoming missiles, calculates its path and provides interceptors with a target location, but those interceptor rockets are useless without the radars that Iran has targeted and possibly destroyed.
"The loss of even a single radar of this type would be an operationally significant event," Jenzen-Jones said.
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