According to the report, the US European Command (EUCOM) transported the system to Israel in a convoy of more than 12 planes which carried the X-band radar and support crew. The planes and crew landed at Nevatim Air Force Base in the south.

The Raytheon Co.-built system can track an object the size of a baseball from 4,700 kilometers away.

It would allow Israel's Arrow missile to engage a Shahab-3 ballistic missile about halfway through what would be a 11-minute flight from Iran, or six times sooner than Israel's "Green Pine" radar can.

The decision to deploy the radar in Israel was finalized during Defense Minister Ehud Barak's recent visit to the US.

The radar, according to the magazine, will be linked to the US Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS), which receives and processes threat data transmitted by US Defense Support System satellites.

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