00:20A radar tower on top of a hill, the highest point in an entire country, and right now it might
00:28be
00:28in ruins. We're talking about Jabal al-Dukhan, Bahrain's tallest peak, just 134 meters high,
00:36but in the middle of a flat desert island, that's everything. Sitting atop this hill,
00:42a British-made AR-327 radar. Think of it as one giant eye scanning the sky, out to nearly 470
00:51kilometers. It watches over the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf shipping lanes, and feeds data straight
00:58into the U.S. 5th Fleet's air defense network. In military terms, this isn't just a radar,
01:04it's a sensor node, part of a much bigger system of eyes and ears that keeps track of everything
01:10flying through one of the most dangerous air spaces on Earth. Then, smoke. Iranian-released
01:17footage showed smoke rising from this exact hilltop. OSINT analysts, open-source investigators
01:25using satellite imagery and terrain matching, geolocated the smoke to coordinates landing
01:30almost precisely on the radar compound. The IRGC reportedly carried out a missile strike
01:37against the early warning radar facility, as part of a broader wave of retaliatory attacks
01:43across June 9th to 11th, hitting sites in Bahrain, Kuwait, and beyond following earlier U.S. strikes
01:50on Iranian coastal radars. Here's why this matters. This isn't a barracks. It's not a runway. It's the
01:57eyes of the system. If a radar like this goes down, even temporarily, it creates a blind spot.
02:04Lower altitude threats, drones, fast inbound missiles, they get harder to detect. That makes
02:11coordination with Patriot batteries and naval defenses tougher. One missing puzzle piece in
02:16an integrated air picture. And the fact that it's a fixed installation, sitting on the one hill
02:22everyone can see from miles away, makes it a sitting target. Everyone knows exactly where it is.
02:29Officially, CENTCOM says most, possibly all, incoming projectiles were intercepted. No confirmed
02:36casualties. No confirmed major damage in initial statements. But that smoke in the imagery tells a
02:42different story, or at least raises a big question mark. Was this a clean intercept or a near miss that
02:48still did damage? Right now, nobody outside classified channels knows for sure. What we do know,
02:55this marks a shift. Iran isn't just hitting bases anymore. It's going after the nervous system of Gulf
03:02air defense, surveillance, early warning, command notes. And as satellite imagery rolls in over the
03:09coming days, we'll get a clearer picture of just how much damage was done and what it means for the
03:14next move in this escalating standoff. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the
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