{"id":212660,"date":"2020-08-28T07:29:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212660"},"modified":"2020-08-30T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T07:39:42","slug":"iran-used-russian-radar-system-to-successfully-track-american-f-35-stealth-fighters-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212660","title":{"rendered":"Iran Used Russian Radar System to Successfully Track American F-35 Stealth Fighters \u2013 Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military Watch Magazine \u2013 Aug 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Ghadir phased array radar capable of monitoring Iran’s skies up to 1,000 kilometers. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran has seen growing deployments of American stealth fighters <\/a><\/strong><\/span>near its borders since 2019, including the reported deployment of two F-35A squadrons to the Gulf Region and the deployment of a single F-22 Raptor squadron <\/a><\/strong><\/span>to Qatar. The presence of the F-35 in the region its set to grow considerably in future, with Israel currently fielding two squadrons and planning the deployment of at least 50 of the jets<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, while the United Arab Emirates is also looking to acquire the fighters <\/a><\/strong><\/span>possibly to replace its ageing French built Mirage 2000 jets. The U.S. Navy, too, is set to phase out its Harrier II and F-18E carrier based fighters for replacement with the F-35B and F-35C respectively, which will increasingly be deployed by American carrier groups to the Persian Gulf region. The threat posed by Western stealth aircraft will only further grow later in the decade as the U.S. Air Force begins to operate the F-X sixth generation fighter<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and B-21 Raider stealth bomber <\/strong><\/span><\/a>– both of which are expected to see their first flights before 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has thus sought to improve its situational awareness in the air domain by acquiring Russian hardware, with the most prolific acquisition being the S-300PMU-2 long range air defence system<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which includes both missile launchers and powerful radars. The country has also deployed advanced variants of the Soviet S-200 system, and indigenous long range systems<\/a><\/strong><\/span> such as the Khordad 15<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and Bavar-373. Less well known, but still very significant, is the Iranian deployment of the Rezonans-NE air defence system which has been successful not only in detecting but also in tracking F-35 fighter jets operating near the country\u2019s borders. Deputy CEO of the Rezonans research centre, Alexander Stuchilin, stated to this effect on August 24th: “At the beginning of 2020 this radar identified U.S. F-35 planes and tracked them\u2026 The radar\u2019s personnel were transmitting information, including the routes of F-35 flights, in clear, thus confirming that it was reliably tracking the planes. For this reason, the opponent did not commit any irreparable actions that might have caused a big war.\u201d\u00a0While the\u00a0Rezonans-NE can track stealth fighters\u00a0however, it remains uncertain whether\u00a0it can share\u00a0targeting data with Iran’s indigenous air defence systems and how well integrated the Iranian\u00a0air defence network really\u00a0is to make full use of the tracking data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuchilin highlighted that the Rezonans-NE radar had been on round-the-clock combat duty in Iran for many years, with sales of such defensive weaponry not restricted by the UN arms embargo currently in place. With the embargo set to expire in October<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Iran is speculated to be planning acquisitions of a number of advanced systems to improve its air defence capabilities – including Chinese KJ-500 airborne early warning aircraft and J-10C fighters equipped with powerful AESA radars. An acquisition of the more advanced S-400 air defence system<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, considered the best optimised in the world for neutralising stealth aircraft at long ranges, is also reportedly under consideration. Russian sources previously reported that F-35 fighters had been detected operating very near Iranian airspace following the assassination of the commander of Iran\u2019s Quds Force <\/a><\/strong><\/span>Qasem Soleimani in a CIA drone strike, with the country\u2019s defences placed on high alert and subsequently accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian civilian airliner. Over 3,000 F-35 fighters are expected to be produced in the coming two decades, the bulk of them for the U.S. Air Force <\/strong><\/span><\/a>where they will replace the Ageing F-16 Fighting Falcon, although whether their stealth capabilities will remain relevant in the face of fast improving radar technologies has been seriously questions by experts in a number of countries<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s ability to track stealth aircraft presents a serious obstacle to any planned air strikes. Is this why the U.S. and Israel haven’t launched any? <\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212660","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=212660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212663,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212660\/revisions\/212663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}