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The U.S. government has agreed to sell a 5000 km range early warning radar to Qatar. The news was announced by U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter on Dec. 10 during his visit to Bahrein.
"We reached an agreement for Qatar to purchase a 5,000 km [range] early warning radar to enhance its missile defences," Carter said.
It was announced in July 2013 that Qatar had requested a Raytheon AN/FPS-132 Block 5 long-range early warning radar at an estimated cost of USD1.1 billion
The Block 5 system is capable of reporting airborne tracks to a maximum range of up to 2000 km and to a minimum radar cross-section (RCS) of 1 m2
Other sources say maximum range is 3000 miles..4828 km
Deal reached for Qatari early warning radar
15th December 2016 - 12:00 by Awad Mustafa in Manama
The United States Defence Secretary has announced that an agreement has been reached to allow Qatar to purchase a long range early warning radar (EWR) from Raytheon last week.
Secretary Ashton Carter told an audience at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) regional security conference in Manama, Bahrain, that the two sides had reached a deal for Qatar to purchase a 5,000km range EWR to enhance its missile defences.
‘Qatar is another Gulf country where our partnership has accelerated over the last several years. It hosts our Combined Air Operations Centre, which is critical to managing the coalition air campaigns over Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan and our militaries are increasingly interoperable in air, land, and ballistic missile defence,’ he added.
In July 2013 Qatar announced its intent to purchase the A/N FPS-132 Block 5 EWR and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $1.1 billion.
The principal contractor, Raytheon, describe the AN/FPS-132 system as designed to detect missile launches that take place thousands of miles away to provide advanced warning time to alert command and control centres and cue fire control systems.
‘This highly reliable radar requires very low manning, yet will operate 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, providing up to 360 degrees of coverage out to 5,000km,’ said Steve Sparagna, chief engineer for the AN/FPS-132 EWR. ‘It is the ideal sensor to deter and detect hostile missile launches.’
According to Michael Elleman, a senior fellow for missile defence with IISS, the system in future can provide not only Qatar but a unified GCC ballistic missile defence system an early warning capability against any Iranian ballistic missile launches.
Qatar currently has requested in 2012 Qatar 11 Patriot PAC-3 launchers and 246 Patriot MIM-104E guidance enhanced missiles in addition to a 2014 order of 12 THAAD launchers, 150 THAAD missiles, two THAAD fire control and communications units and two AN/TPY-2 THAAD radars to complement the EWR.
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/deal-reached-qatari-early-warning-radar/
Source: https://defence.pk/threads/u-s-to-sell-large-early-warning-radar-to-qatar.270884/#ixzz4SwT3ZhD4
"We reached an agreement for Qatar to purchase a 5,000 km [range] early warning radar to enhance its missile defences," Carter said.
It was announced in July 2013 that Qatar had requested a Raytheon AN/FPS-132 Block 5 long-range early warning radar at an estimated cost of USD1.1 billion
The Block 5 system is capable of reporting airborne tracks to a maximum range of up to 2000 km and to a minimum radar cross-section (RCS) of 1 m2
Other sources say maximum range is 3000 miles..4828 km
Deal reached for Qatari early warning radar
15th December 2016 - 12:00 by Awad Mustafa in Manama
The United States Defence Secretary has announced that an agreement has been reached to allow Qatar to purchase a long range early warning radar (EWR) from Raytheon last week.
Secretary Ashton Carter told an audience at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) regional security conference in Manama, Bahrain, that the two sides had reached a deal for Qatar to purchase a 5,000km range EWR to enhance its missile defences.
‘Qatar is another Gulf country where our partnership has accelerated over the last several years. It hosts our Combined Air Operations Centre, which is critical to managing the coalition air campaigns over Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan and our militaries are increasingly interoperable in air, land, and ballistic missile defence,’ he added.
In July 2013 Qatar announced its intent to purchase the A/N FPS-132 Block 5 EWR and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $1.1 billion.
The principal contractor, Raytheon, describe the AN/FPS-132 system as designed to detect missile launches that take place thousands of miles away to provide advanced warning time to alert command and control centres and cue fire control systems.
‘This highly reliable radar requires very low manning, yet will operate 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, providing up to 360 degrees of coverage out to 5,000km,’ said Steve Sparagna, chief engineer for the AN/FPS-132 EWR. ‘It is the ideal sensor to deter and detect hostile missile launches.’
According to Michael Elleman, a senior fellow for missile defence with IISS, the system in future can provide not only Qatar but a unified GCC ballistic missile defence system an early warning capability against any Iranian ballistic missile launches.
Qatar currently has requested in 2012 Qatar 11 Patriot PAC-3 launchers and 246 Patriot MIM-104E guidance enhanced missiles in addition to a 2014 order of 12 THAAD launchers, 150 THAAD missiles, two THAAD fire control and communications units and two AN/TPY-2 THAAD radars to complement the EWR.
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/deal-reached-qatari-early-warning-radar/
Source: https://defence.pk/threads/u-s-to-sell-large-early-warning-radar-to-qatar.270884/#ixzz4SwT3ZhD4
Raytheon 
or it was if we fire towards anywhere, will be detected by this system?
