US THAAD missile defence radar destroyed in Jordan

The radar system for a $300 million THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery, the US military’s most advanced ground-based mobile missile defence system, was hit in Jordan amid a series of regional missile strikes, sources told Bloomberg.

The attacks also targeted the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain with several ballistic missiles and Shaheds, and destroyed a rare and expensive early-warning radar in Qatar.

“It’s a race to see will our inventories get low before the Iranian missile inventories get low,” said Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, underlining the intensity and scale of the ongoing missile exchanges.

Earlier, the Iranian military command "Khatam al-Anbia" reported that US losses at the Al-Dhafra base in the UAE exceeded 200 people, and more than 20 people did not survive the attack on the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.

By Sabina Mammadli