U.S. AN/TPY-2 Radar in Israel

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Firehorse said:
U.S. Radar in Israel: What's it For, Really?
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/israel-radar-mi.html

Interesting discussion below the article!
IMO, this radar could indeed be jammed by the Russian Navy in the Med. and/or Red Sea; and its deployed there to monitor everyone, including Israeli AF & BMs. Can anyone add something I might have missed?
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1) CDI is a potential cracker job site.
2) The radar in the Czech Rep will be a mechanical dish radar, i.e. the notes on number of array elements is not only free fantasy, but wrong technology.
3) Published imagery from those radars suggest discrimination far better than .01 m2 @ ranges >400km.
4) Good luck to the Russian Navy.
 
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If not by the Navy, jamming could be done from Syria. The Russians didn't miss this radar being put there and suspect it to be used to watch their air activity from the South. 1 more X-band radar in Diego Garcia or Sri Lanka (after the order is restored there) and most, if not the whole, of Eurasia's is under coverage!
http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu91/images/00036517.gif

This article has a map showing future coverages of 2 additional radars (marked yellow) in the UK & Norway.
http://www.wmdinsights.com/I22/I22_RU2_MoscowRejects.htm

The one in Israel will overlap those, especially in its Western and Northern sectors. This prophetic article was written 4.5 years ago:
Major U.S. early warning radars are deployed at Thule, Greenland, and Fylingdales, England. (Additional facilities are scheduled to be built in Japan.) If these sites are not already considered high-value targets as central components of a missile defense system, they soon would be—just like the Soviet ABM radars, which became priority targets for U.S. planners. ..
U.S. (and British) nuclear planners responded to the Soviet deployment of a limited missile defense system with enormous firepower. The large number of nuclear weapons that were assigned to overwhelm the Soviet ABM system and the substantial technical efforts the U.S. undertook to defeat it provide chilling examples of the attention missile defense systems attract from hostile nuclear planners. It is a history that fundamentally contradicts the portrayal of missile defenses as non-offensive, threatening no one. Ballistic missile defense systems threaten secured retaliation, and for smaller powers, deterrence itself.
http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/bmd/protection_paradox.htm
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Why there should be any surprise to Russian reaction to US BMD plans when several dacades ago the US itself reacted in similar ways?
 
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