Not so long ago, in our material, the ISI Center revealed the location of the Russian S-300 in Syria: “We found it” we told that the Imagesatint Center for Integrated Geospatial Solutions, affiliated with the United States and Israel, published a circular review of the place where according to the Center, S-300s are located in Syria. As reported, the location of the Russian SS-300 and S-400 air defense missile systems is located in the Syrian Mayaf area.

Now there are informations about the location of the Israeli Patriot defense systems. They, in contrast to the S-300 in Syria, which the Center was engaged in, found and published only one person. One of the Israeli GIS analysts, Harel Dan, in his blog, published a unique and simplest and at the same time effective method for determining the location of American Patriot batteries, which is accessible to “even children.”

As Israeli GIS analyst Harel Dan explains in his blog article on medium.com, when he accidentally adjusted the noise levels of images received from the SENTINEL-1 satellite, a heap of color Xs suddenly appeared all over the world.

Sentinel-1 (PCA) operates at a frequency of 5.405 GHz, which conveniently “sits” within the military frequency used on Earth (Airborne Forces and naval radar systems — 5.250–5.850 GHz, including a phased radar antenna array, which form the basis of battery management and control system Paetriot). Harel suggested that some of the Xs that appeared on the SENTINEL-1 images could be caused by interference from the Patriot radar systems.

Using this logic, he was able to use the Xs to locate the Patriot batteries in several countries in the Middle East, including Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

In one of the photos in an article in a blog, Harel also noted that several Xs appeared on Israeli territory; however, the corresponding image was almost edited the same (guess why)), leaving a significant gap in his review of Patriot batteries located in the Middle East.

The photo given by Støb will probably partly fill in the gap caused by the “Israeli Patriot Photos” by Kherel. Moreover, all locations of these systems in Israel have long been known to observers, and photos of many of them appeared in news articles.

Looking at the map of Israel through the Sentinel-1 SAR images, four Xs are clearly visible: one in the Upper Galilee, one in Haifa, one near Tel Aviv and one in the Negev. All these Xs correspond to the likely placement of Patriot batteries, which in Israel are called “Yahalom” (להלום, which means “Diamond”).

The most northerly object is home to the battery of Yakhalom of the 138th battalion in Birye, which in July 2018 made news of the successful interception of the Syrian Su-24 aircraft, which reportedly penetrated two kilometers into Israeli airspace before being shot down. Earlier in the month, the Birya battery also successfully intercepted a Syrian UAV, which flew 10 kilometers into Israeli airspace.

The battery “Yakhalom” in the north-west is located on one of the ridges of Mount Carmel, not far from the Haifa monastery of Stella Maris. It is located just 50 meters from the residential area, which, for obvious reasons, caused some resentment among nearby residents who complained that there were too many ammunition stored there and that the air sirens were too loud.

The “X” in the West indicates the location of the Yakhalom object at the Palmachim airbase, south of Tel Aviv, where Israel launches missiles and satellites. In March 2016, the Israeli Air Force launched interceptors as part of pre-planned anti-missile defense exercises, and while the government refused to disclose the location of the battery, an Israeli television channel reported that the exercises were conducted using Patriot missiles fired from Palmachim airbase.

What is remarkable, the portal of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) was founded in 1945 and is intended to provide a scientifically based analysis and solution to protect against national and international security from catastrophic threats. In particular, the FAS is working to reduce the spread and nuclear weapons, prevents nuclear and radiological terrorism, promotes high standards of safety and security of nuclear energy, highlights the practice of state secrets, and also prevents the use of biological and chemical weapons. It is considered necessary to have an ethical obligation, so that the technological fruits of their intellect and labor are used only for the benefit of mankind.)

In the FAS material, which is devoted to the article of Haryer, and from where Stebombyli borrowed photos, apparently due to the closeness of Israel, the Federation of American Scientists writes that “the Kherel method is very useful.”

Source: realmaluta.livejournal.com