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Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes

Iran has destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf that risks further straining the region’s ability to counter future attacks, according to a US official.

Satellite photos show that an RTX Corp. AN/TPY-2 radar and support equipment — used by US THAAD missile defense 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.

Data gathered by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank show two reported Iranian strikes in Jordan: one on Feb. 28 and one on March 3. Both were reported to have been intercepted.

“If successful, an Iranian strike on a THAAD radar would mark one of Iran’s most successful attacks so far,” said Ryan Brobst, deputy director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. However, he added that “the US military and its partners have other radars that can continue to provide air and missile defense coverage, mitigating the loss of any single radar.”

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.

The US has eight THAAD systems globally, including in South Korea and Guam. The batteries cost about $1 billion each, with the radar comprising about $300 million of that, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“These are scarce strategic resources and its loss is a huge blow,” said Tom Karako, a missile defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Army’s current “eight-battery force is still below the force structure requirements of nine set back in 2012, so there aren’t exactly any spare TPY-2 lying around,” he said.

A THAAD battery consists of 90 soldiers, six truck mounted launchers and forty-eight interceptors — 8 per launcher — one TPY-2 radar, as well as a tactical fire control and communication unit. Each interceptor missile, manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp., costs about $13 million.

“If you want integrated air and missile defenses, this is just one of the things you’d put in the theater,” said William Alberque, a Europe-based senior fellow at the Pacific Forum research institute.

Earlier in the war, an AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar — a fixed installation unlike the mobile THAAD system — was damaged during an Iranian attack, according to research from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California.

That system is an early warning radar, designed to spot threats at extreme distances but without the precision needed to launch weapons at them.

Air and missile defense systems in the Gulf region have been stressed and, at times, overwhelmed by Iranian retaliatory attacks of drones and ballistic missiles. It has prompted fears that stockpiles of advanced interceptors such as THAAD and PAC-3 will soon run dangerously low.

On Friday, defense contractors including Lockheed and RTX met at the White House as the Pentagon pushes to speed weapons production.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/iran-hits-key-us-radar-deepening-gulf-missile-defense-woes?

Photo 1) Aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on Feb. 21.
Photographer: Planet Labs PBC/AP Photo

Iran warned Trump that this will happen and they matched their threat with action.

Iran has been hitting data centers, energy infrastructures including direct hit on US companies like Haliburton and hotels where US forces retire to daily.

https://youtube.com/shorts/7yTHDrGVJvw?si=k-DudYS8nSFeSYm0

Hubris brought shame, defeat and disgrace to Trump, US, EU and Europeans now fleeing Occupied Palestine in droves!

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7614007724774378766?

Iran is going down hahahahah

May Iran not run out of missiles, if not, body go tell them.

FreeStuffsNG:
Iran warned Trump that this will happen and they matched their threat with action.

This one is still helping Iran to brag!! Body go tell all the terrorists in the world hahahahaha

Make ona wait ...First half never finish


Iran go cry

This is old news before pro Iranian come here to talk rubbish. I know most of them don’t read.

They did that at the beginning of the war.

It’s after the war both side will carry out assessment on damage incurred from this war.

Besides this man is a known trump hater. He also talk bad about the same military he was part of. Democrat have seen the raise to trump popularity and they are now playing politics just to bad mouth trump achievement. Just yesterday CNN traveled to iran

Red flag.

1. Iran approved and grant cnn coverage

2. CNN went to mosque yesterday showing people with fake tears and showing solidarity for their killed government.

CNN is now a propagating fake stuff to undermine and discredit trump efforts

FreeStuffsNG:
Iran warned Trump that this will happen and they matched their threat with action.

This is war and there will be losses here and there. Where are Iranian leaders, naval forces, air forces and IRGC members?
New Govt will take place in iran. Trump has achieved his aim.
Iran lost all they built because of terrorism funding and what have you.
Don't fight America. Russia, china and Co won't intervene as long as Israel and America are involved.
Power pass power.

Nice one. A good way to blind the goyim

All those saying Iran is winning d war should travel to Iran for holiday.funny enough I can comfortably travel to d US for holiday as we speak knowing fully well I won't b affected by d war but I doubt anyone would want to go to Iran right now so all those Iran sympathiser should stop deceiving themselves that they are winning

Russia and China giving Iran Intel

Angel626:
They should just negotiate

They should negotiate with liars and dishonorable people like Trump, who started bombing while negotiations were on?

Iranians are honorable people, they are not cowards like Americans. They would rather die.

The pedophile in the white house thinks Iran is one country you can just run over. He is using wars to try to distract Americans from the epstein files which shows how he raped children.
If not for absence of equal playing field, Iran will destroy Isreal. Isreal receives billions of dollars in US military aide every year. They get the finest American fighter jets (F-35) that american refuses to sell to other countries in the middle east because they want Isreal to have a military edge in the region. And there is Iran that has suffered several economic sanctions. Yet, Iran is giving the US and Isreal a run for their money.

And if you are Christian and you support Isreal, you are a complete fool. ISREAL is not a Christian nation. The present day Isreal is not the isreal in the Bible. The present day Isreal are Europeans who were brought from various parts of Europe to occupy Palestinian land. Isreali Jews don't even believe in Jesus. They think he was a false prophet who is currently in hellfire.

Mind you, I am a Christian!

This is a phyrric victory, so why celebrating it?

All these terrorist sympathizers self...

All these propaganda on this war of Iran destroy this or that, just intended to keep the news balanced, but Iran's going down! May the soul of the departed and those that'll still depart henceforth, rest in peace.

So upon all the military might of Iran, they could not secure the only person that most mattered to them, but now propagandists believe they can face Israel and the US in a battle.
The main threat, Ayatollah, was eliminated. Let the ragtag terrorists keep on with the face saving drone attacks on their neighbors. Gradually they will be decimated.

Flashback: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows to fight America until it bows down to Islam: “Death to America is not just a slogan, it is a policy.”

Was this a threat or a misunderstanding of Islam’s peaceful nature?pic.twitter.com/aeTK8506Gv

— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) March 6, 2026

Sermwell:
This one is still helping Iran to brag!! Body go tell all the terrorists in the world hahahahaha

caleboxylic:
This is war and there will be losses here and there. Where are Iranian leaders, naval forces, air forces and IRGC members?
New Govt will take place in iran. Trump has achieved his aim.
Iran lost all they built because of terrorism funding and what have you.
Don't fight America. Russia, china and Co won't intervene as long as Israel and America are involved.
Power pass power.

Smh.

Ignorance is not bliss.


Ghosts must be the ones firing missiles and drones into central back to back till break of dawn this morning in Occupied Palestine.

Why do the children killers you support urgently in need of new munitions? Yet Iran has only been using missiles it produced in 2012 -2013.


Hubris brought shame, defeat and disgrace to Trump, US, EU and Europeans now fleeing Occupied Palestine in droves!

Both sides have lost billions of dollars worth of assets in this war that is just a week old. It just shows you how destructive war can be. War is never a good thing. It comes with too much destruction and losses.

Amayabor1:
The pedophile in the white house thinks Iran is one country you can just run over. He is using wars to try to distract Americans from the epstein files which shows how he raped children.
If not for absence of equal playing field, Iran will destroy Isreal. Isreal receives billions of dollars in US military aide every year. They get the finest American fighter jets (F-35) that american refuses to sell to other countries in the middle east because they want Isreal to have a military edge in the region. And there is Iran that has suffered several economic sanctions. Yet, Iran is giving the US and Isreal a run for their money.

And if you are Christian and you support Isreal, you are a complete fool. ISREAL is not a Christian nation. The present day Isreal is not the isreal in the Bible. The present day Isreal are Europeans who were brought from various parts of Europe to occupy Palestinian land. Isreali Jews don't even believe in Jesus. They think he was a false prophet who is currently in hellfire.

Mind you, I am a Christian!

First, you are not a Christian, stop lying...

If you were a Christian, I wouldn't need to teach you why Israel is to be encouraged and supported even though they are not Christians. The Bible teaches us Christians that Israel needs to be in disobedience to God so that we the Gentiles can be in obedience. So yes, we love Israel even though they are not Christians.

But I know your brain can't yet carry what I'm saying so keep it somewhere.

What playing field are you talking about? Didn't Israel heavily damage the Iranian military and command during the 12 day war. Or why can't Iran purchase stealth fighter jets from Russia and China. Instead, it chose a doctrine that focuses on firing missiles and now it is being beaten to a pulp lol.

Angel626:
They should just negotiate

negotiation means attack,Iran will not negotiate

WriterrNg:
Some dull Nigerians here were saying Iran was firing randomly at empty bases without knowing that Iran was taking out the US eyes in the Middle East.

Without these radars and air defense systems they are blind, the US would be unable to detect or prevent an Iranian missile from striking its target.

Iran just made sure it's missiles can have a smooth passage to any US facility in the entire Middle East.

Genuis move.

The US were helping Ukraine take out Russian air defense systems. Today Russia is helping Iran take out the best and most prized US air defense systems. Tit for tat.

What I understand is that wen they finish destroying all air defense....the war will now be attack vs attack.... By then they should enjoy destroying all air defense.

naptu2:
Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/iran-hits-key-us-radar-deepening-gulf-missile-defense-woes?

Photo 1) Aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on Feb. 21.
Photographer: Planet Labs PBC/AP Photo

terrorists given themselves hope.

America and Israel have no intentions of killing Iranian civilians and population.

Iran is really showing US and Israel pepper but the mainstream media is under reporting it to save the ego of US and Israel! No wonder Dullnard Trump is seriously wanting a dialogue with them.

No peace for the wicked!

Amayabor1:
The pedophile in the white house thinks Iran is one country you can just run over. He is using wars to try to distract Americans from the epstein files which shows how he raped children.
If not for absence of equal playing field, Iran will destroy Isreal. Isreal receives billions of dollars in US military aide every year. They get the finest American fighter jets (F-35) that american refuses to sell to other countries in the middle east because they want Isreal to have a military edge in the region. And there is Iran that has suffered several economic sanctions. Yet, Iran is giving the US and Isreal a run for their money.

And if you are Christian and you support Isreal, you are a complete fool. ISREAL is not a Christian nation. The present day Isreal is not the isreal in the Bible. The present day Isreal are Europeans who were brought from various parts of Europe to occupy Palestinian land. Isreali Jews don't even believe in Jesus. They think he was a false prophet who is currently in hellfire.

Mind you, I am a Christian!

You're are a lost Christian if at all you're one! Over four decades, Iran continue saying Israel must be wiped out of earth surface, but all these deadly threats matter nothing to you rather you chose to criticise Israel for fighting for survival, you must be a vampire!

This war was highly uncalled for
Trump and Netanyahu did not do well.
Why is it that US and Israel can never live in peace

Amayabor1:
The pedophile in the white house thinks Iran is one country you can just run over. He is using wars to try to distract Americans from the epstein files which shows how he raped children.
If not for absence of equal playing field, Iran will destroy Isreal. Isreal receives billions of dollars in US military aide every year. They get the finest American fighter jets (F-35) that american refuses to sell to other countries in the middle east because they want Isreal to have a military edge in the region. And there is Iran that has suffered several economic sanctions. Yet, Iran is giving the US and Isreal a run for their money.

And if you are Christian and you support Isreal, you are a complete fool. ISREAL is not a Christian nation. The present day Isreal is not the isreal in the Bible. The present day Isreal are Europeans who were brought from various parts of Europe to occupy Palestinian land. Isreali Jews don't even believe in Jesus. They think he was a false prophet who is currently in hellfire.

Mind you, I am a Christian!

You should be more worried about the drug lord's file in Chicago instead of epstein files. Trump had no issues with the epstein files, and ordered for the files to be released. Same cannot be said of the drug lord's file in Chicago.

Enjoy the new beat released by Iranian DJ featuring Popstar Trump below.

Iranian DJ releases ‘Khamenei is Dead’ song featuring Trump. 🔊

🎥 Shivibes._ pic.twitter.com/ch6M7P1JKY

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 3, 2026

Hismajesty44:
You're are a lost Christian if at all you're one! Over four decades, Iran continue saying Israel must be wiped out of earth surface, but all these deadly threats matter nothing to you rather you chose to criticise Israel for fighting for survival, you must be a vampire!

Gerrrrroooutttt
See this one. Christian class captain. PA to master Jesus lol

Galaticos444:
All those saying Iran is winning d war should travel to Iran for holiday.funny enough I can comfortably travel to d US for holiday as we speak knowing fully well I won't b affected by d war but I doubt anyone would want to go to Iran right now so all those Iran sympathiser should stop deceiving themselves that they are winning

You can travel where for holiday?