{"id":204462,"date":"2020-03-25T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204462"},"modified":"2020-03-27T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T06:37:20","slug":"iran-used-home-made-fath-14-radar-system-to-intercept-intruding-f-18-media-speculate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204462","title":{"rendered":"Iran used home-made Fat\u2019h 14 radar system to intercept intruding F-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 March 24, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Fat\u2019h 14 (Conquer 14)<\/p><\/div>\n

Footage has been\u00a0released of how the Iranian Army\u2019s air defenses locked in on an intruding F-18 fighter jet approaching the country\u2019s southern waters and decisively\u00a0warned it off, prompting\u00a0military experts and media to speculate about which Iranian radar system was used to intercept the warplane.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the video, the Boeing F-18 Super Hornet is seen receiving several warnings from the Iranian air defenses before changing course and turning away from Iran\u2019s southern airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Iranian forces warned the fighter jet that if it maintained its course toward Iran\u2019s airspace, it would be targeted by the country\u2019s air defense missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The footage, which was recently released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), dates back to the first day of the Iranian New Year (started on March 20).<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s air defense base in the south \u2014 located near the port city of Bandar Abbas runs a range of radar systems monitoring the skies in that corner of the country, but observers believe the video of the incident appears to have been captured by Iran\u2019s domestically-built radar system, dubbed Fat\u2019h 14 (Conquer 14).<\/span><\/p>\n

The interception has a high technical and psychological operation value given that the fighter jet has been detected overnight by the Iranian Army\u2019s Air Force, which is equipped with different types of electronic warfare systems, the Persian service of Russia\u2019s Sputnik news agency reported on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fat\u2019h 14 radar system, unveiled in 2015, has a range of 600 kilometers and can detect small airborne targets at a high altitude.<\/span><\/p>\n

High agility and swift connection to command and control network are among other features of the semiconductor radar.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is resistant to electronic warfare and is regarded as the best radar for missile systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

The intruding jet reportedly belonged to the US military. Washington has not commented on the reports, but the incident happened just days after The New York Times<\/em> reported that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had recently pushed for a \u201ctough action\u201d against Iran while the country was busy battling a new coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June 2019, Iran\u2019s air defenses shot down the advanced US-made RQ-4 Global Hawk over Iran\u2019s territorial waters off the coastal province of Hormozgan after the unmanned aircraft breached the country\u2019s airspace on a spying mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel fails in an attempt to probe Iranian air defences as an approaching Israeli F-18 is detected by locally developed radars and warned from entering Iran\u2019s airspace <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204480,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204462\/revisions\/204480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}