Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
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They have a complete satellite system.
As you know, over the Earth, and we've seen some of the pictures from them, they're very good.
And they also, in the cooperation agreement between Iran and China, agreed that they might have access to the highest grade military quality digital communication system of Beidou.
So the satellite system, there are Earth receivers in Iran.
The satellite system is linked to that, and the radars are linked through Beidou to a single command post or to each single, if you like, missile city to provide the targeting and the data.
And during the first stages of this, they also put one of their intelligence ships, called Ocean One, off the coast, the Persian coast, which was able to intercept communications.
It was also able to map undersea.
In other words, they could map any Israeli or United States submarines that were operating.
All of this was linked, and it's linked in a sort of huge,
digital map that is available, which gives the targets and it gives the way in which those targets can be attacked, what type of missile can be used.
It was used by the Pakistanis in a rather simpler form in their war against India, which the Pakistani pilot didn't have to see its target on the radar.
because it could see the whole situation, the whole map.
We call this, in the West, the IRS, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance.
This was the big asset that the United States gave to the Ukrainians, the ability to have an integrated
type of targeting and data, all in one, all presented, even down onto a laptop if necessary, but onto a cockpit or into a missile center.
So what I'm saying is, and there's no confirmation of this from the Chinese or anyone they keep quiet about it, but this time the shoe is on the other foot.
It's the Iranians that have the IRS, the intelligence reconnaissance system.
It's quite clear.
I mean, you know, I don't have to prove it because, you know, when a B-1 takes off from Fairford Airport, RAF in England, the Iranians pick it up within a second that it's taken off and know when they can plot where it's going and what to do about it.
So they obviously have much more sophisticated, if you like, targeting and data management than in the past.
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