[IslanderReports] The radar destruction map just got worse. Far worse.
Two more AN/TPY-2 THAAD radars confirmed destroyed — one near Abu Dhabi, one at Jordan’s Muwafaq Salti airbase. Added to the AN/FPS-132 at Al Udeid. Total radar losses now exceed $3.4 billion. Before a single launchpad or support structure is counted.
Look at the graphic. Before and after. Five separate radar systems. Qatar. UAE. Jordan. The coverage circles on that map — 3,000km, 5,000km — tell you what Washington will not. These aren’t just tactical losses. The AN/FPS-132 alone watched western China and Russia. That coverage is now gone. Not degraded. Gone. And replacing it with airborne assets over an active Iranian air defense envelope is not a serious proposition.
Here is what makes this extraordinary — most of this wasn’t done with ballistic missiles. It was done with Shaheds. The same cheap Iranian drone Washington spent two years dismissing as a nuisance weapon in Ukraine. The weapon that costs tens of thousands of dollars just methodically removed billions of dollars of the most sophisticated radar architecture on earth.
Iran didn’t beat the American missile defense system. It removed the system’s ability to see — base by base, country by country, radar by radar — before the interceptors even knew where to look.
The magazines are empty. The eyes are gone. And somewhere in Tehran, someone is now deciding where the missiles go next.
All that’s on the ground. But overhead satellites are orbiting — Israeli satellites, American satellites, Russian and Chinese satellite, and whoever else put some up. Nothing is going unobserved.
And then there’s the radar the US Navy carried in… |
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