Israel relocates radar to watch PG closely

Israel has decided to relocate an advanced US-made anti-missile radar system to a position, from where it can have the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf within its reach.

The Forward-Based X-band Transportable (FBX-T) anti-missile radar system currently stationed at Nevatim air base east of the Negev capital Beersheba, will be moved to a mountain perch in Har Keren, Debka reported

This is while Washington had set strict conditions before granting Israel the powerful FBX-T radar system — the system will be installed at a US base and will be off-limits to Israelis and managed exclusively by American personnel.

The FBX-T system is designed as an air, ground and rail transportable, X-band, phased array radar that uses high-powered, electronically scanning pulsed beams, to track small objects in space at high resolution.

The system has been described by American officials as capable of tracking an object the size of a “baseball from about 2,900 miles (4,600 km) away.”