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Similar posts went viral on Facebook, Instagram, and X, alleging that the picture showed the impact of an Iranian strike at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Iran has launched retaliatory attacks on US targets in multiple Middle East countries amid a war triggered by US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, and satellite imagery suggests a key radar system in Qatar was impacted.
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.
Satellite photos and images are also going viral on micro-blogging website X (which was previously called Twitter) that showed the destroyed RTX Corp. AN/TPY-2 radar and support equipment that is used by the THAAD radar system.
Satellite imagery confirms damage to the US AN/FPS-132 early warning radar in Qatar after Iran’s reported precision strike under Operation True Promise 4. The $1.1-billion system formed the backbone of American missile defence in the Gulf,
Does a viral photo show the damage from an airstrike against an early warning radar system in Qatar? No, that's not true: This picture is fake and does not show the radar system in question. There
Iranian media claim a US AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar was destroyed in a missile strike, as the widening US–Israel conflict sees advanced weaponry deployed and regional air defences tested.
IRGC claimed that the radar was "completely destroyed" in a precision missile strike. It was later corroborated by Qatari officials.
Video verified by The Times showed that an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a radome on Saturday in the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. The base is the United States’ primary hub for coordinating naval operations in the Middle East.
The U.S. is rushing to replace a Thaad radar in Jordan that was damaged in an Iranian-backed drone strike, according to a U.S. official. The radar is a critical component of the ground-based missile-defense system,