Satellite photos show that an RTX AN/TPY-2 radar and support equipment – used by US THAAD missile defence systems – was destroyed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan in the opening days of the war, CNN reported earlier, citing commercial satellite imagery. The destruction of the equipment was later confirmed by a US official.
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US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, units are meant to destroy ballistic missiles at the edges of the atmosphere, enabling them to engage more difficult threats than shorter-range Patriot batteries. With this AN/TPY-2 radar out of commission, missile interception duties will fall onto the Patriot systems, for which PAC-3 missiles are already in short supply.
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On March 6, Reuters reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said their forces had targeted radar systems in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Qatar.
“US THAAD radars deployed in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, as well as the US FPS-132 over-the-horizon radar (‘Desert Eye’) stationed in Qatar, have been destroyed by the missile and drone units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” said the Guards on their website, Sepah News.
The Straits Times
UPDATE 03/07/2026:
Unconscionable; totally believable...
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