Iran, Radar and Missile Defense

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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 ...

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Iran is hitting the radars that underpin US missile defenses
US and Israel hit Iran with more attacks
Iran names Khamenei’s son as new supreme leader
Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor, Iranian state TV announced early Monday, as the war that began a little over a week ago with his father’s killing t...

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Iran's president apologizes for strikes on neighbors as strikes pound their cities
The Latest: Trump says he’ll hit Iran harder as Iranian president apologizes to neighbors
New strikes light up the night in Tehran as Israel vows ‘many surprises’
President Masoud Pezeshkian, one member of a tripartite leadership council overseeing Iran since a Feb. 28 airstrike started the war and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered the def...

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Trump Rejects Settling War With Iran, Raises Notion of Eliminating All Its Potential Leaders
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The Latest: Iran’s president says nation 'will not bow' to pressure from US and Israel

Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show

New satellite images from several key military bases in the Arabian Peninsula suggest that Iran is seeking to degrade air defenses by destroying US-made radars that detect incoming missiles and drones.
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RTX Invests $53M to Expand Facility for Advanced Missile Defense Radar

RTX Corporation RTX has begun a $53 million expansion of its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor production facility in Andover, MA. The 23,000-square-foot addition is aimed at boosting the production and delivery of next-generation radar systems ...
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IERUS Technologies Wins $475M MDA Contract for Radar Systems Test, Analysis

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded IERUS Technologies a $474.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support testing and analysis for multiple radar platforms within the Missile Defense System. Under the Radar Systems Test and Analysis contract ...
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Greenland radars vulnerable to hypersonic missiles, critics warn

The upgraded early warning radar scans the horizon at Thule Air Base, Greenland. (Paul Honnick/U.S. Space Force) Since the early days of the Cold War, the early warning radars on Greenland have been a linchpin for defending North America against nuclear ...