Hezbollah Takes Out American-made Israeli Radar With Almas-3 Iranian-Made Missile (Video)

Hezbollah has successfully used an advanced Iranian-made anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) to take out a counter-battery radar of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

The group released video footage of the attack on April 18, noting that it took place a day earlier.

Accourding to Southfront , The radar, identified as an American-made AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder, was deployed at a key air traffic control base of the IDF on Mount Meron, some eight kilometers away from the border with Lebanon.

The AN/TPQ-37 was developed to detect and track incoming artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for counter-battery fire.

The S-band radar can detect an artillery shell from 30 kilometers and a rocket from up to 50 kilometers.

Hezbollah fighters used what appears to be a ground-launched version of the Iranian Almas-3 ATGM to take out the counter-battery radar

⚡️Hezb-Allah publishes footage of them striking the enemy’s Meron base in northern occupied Palestine. pic.twitter.com/eFIuObsGQa

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) April 18, 2024