U.S. Deploys X-Band Radar In Israel

The United States has deployed an X-band radar and 120 personnel to operate it in Israel, in the Negev Desert, to detect incoming enemy missiles such as the Iranian Shahab-3, according to international media reports. That X-band radar would be linked into both Israeli and U.S. ballistic missile defense radar...

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