Syrian strike

Report: IAF strike in Syria also targeted radar station

Aviation Week reports Israel's September strike on Syria targeted radar

station near Syrian-Turkish border. US supplied strategic information
but was not actively involved, says magazine
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The United States provided Israel with strategic information about
the Syrian air defense systems prior to the Israeli Air Force strike on

a suspected nuclear site in Syria, the US based Aviation Week & Space
Technology magazine reported Thursday.

According to aerospace industry officials quoted in the report, the US
was monitoring the electronic emissions coming from Syria during the
IAF strike.

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The strike, said Aviation Week, targeted not only the suspected nuclear

reactor being developed at Dayr az-Zawr, but also a Syrian radar
station located at Tall al-Abuad, near the Syrian-Turkish border.

The Israeli fighter jets, reported the magazine, flew over Syria
without alerting Syrian air defenses.

The radar site was apparently hit with both precision bombs and an
electronic signal, which allowed IAF jets to fly through Syrian
airspace undetected.

The report stressed that there was "no active US engagement other than
consulting on potential target vulnerabilities."

The analysts quoted in the magazine said they didn't believe that any
part of Syria's electrical grid was shut down, but did contend that
network penetration involved both remote air-to-ground electronic
attack as well as penetration through computer-to-computer links.

"Offensive and defensive network warfare is one of the most interesting

new areas," said Pinchas Buchris, director-general of the Israeli
Defense Ministry. "I can only say we're following this technology
closely. I doubted this field five years ago, but we did it. Now
everything's changed.

"You need this kind of capability," added Buchris. "You're not being
responsible if you're not dealing with it; and if you can have this
kind of capability, than the sky's the limit."