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Now i am wondering how much is Iran per year R&D budget?and how much is the latest figure of Official Defence Budget(Approved every year)?
I really doubt the $8Billion as Defence Budget,Seem more like atleast 15Billion Dollars
Anyway congrats as Radar is one of the most important sector of Defence,
I really doubt the $8Billion as Defence Budget,Seem more like atleast 15Billion Dollars
Anyway congrats as Radar is one of the most important sector of Defence,
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See my post above, although Arash radar itself was not shown.
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NO it is free dandaFree Wifi?
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As it appears the radar which was introduced as Arash 2 strongly resemble Square Pair radar(minus its radar station unit) so the possible explanations are that either Arash 2 is an upgraded copy of Square Pair which is solid state(we have already seen its new radar station unit) also the old Square Pair has a range of 270km but Arash 2 has a range of 400km(according to a poster), the other explanation is that IRIB have shown the wrong footage which based on its record is not far from mind.
Arash 2 radar station unit
Arash 2 radar station unit
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I'm sure now by publishing this picture somebody comes and claim the system is not Iranian at all because the air-conditioner in It is LG.
another probability is US treasury sanction LG because of their role in Iran Missile and Nuclear program and use this picture as evidence.
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More long-range Iranian early-warning radars revealed
More long-range Iranian early-warning radars revealed - IHS Jane's 360
Probable Sepehr radar complex
Key Points
Satellite imagery obtained by IHS Jane's shows that Iran has two more long-range, early-warning radar sites in addition to the one that was unveiled earlier this year.
- Iran is making significant progress in building a network of long-range early-warning radars.
- IHS Jane's has identified what appears to be the 3,000 km range Sepehr radar in the northwest of the country, as well as a prototype facility for the Ghadir radar that was unveiled in June.
Iran's unveiled its long-range Ghadir radar near Garmsar in early June. (Fars News Agency)
The previously known site near Garmsar in Semnan province was publicly unveiled during a ceremony held on 2 June, when the Iranian media released photographs and video footage showing a facility with four horizontal arrays arranged in a square around a vertical array and support buildings.
Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, the commander of Iran's air defence forces, stated that the Ghadir radar could perform well against electronic warfare systems and would be difficult to destroy using anti-radar missiles. "The radar system uses a system that resonates the frequency and can trace targets more than 1,000 km in distance," he said.
The available satellite imagery of the site, which is 15 km southeast of Garmsar (35.133722° 52.469314°), shows that the Ghadir resembles Russia's Rezonans-NE system and indicates it was operational by the end of 2012 after a construction process that took 8-10 months.
The four primary arrays are approximately 39 m in width and together form a square with sides measuring approximately 55 m. Assuming a detection range of 1,000 km, this configuration provides 360° coverage of nearly all Iran and Iraq, the far southeast of Turkey and parts of northeast Saudi Arabia.
There also appears to be a prototype Ghadir radar site located at an air defence base between the towns of Andisheh and Qods in Tehran province (35.707617° 51.074084°). Satellite imagery shows a single primary array; a vertical, tower-mounted, Yagi-style antenna; and three support buildings were constructed between late-2009 and early-2010.
Like the Garmsar site, the horizontal array is approximately 39 m long. It faces southeast at approximately 151° so should be able to cover most of central Iran and the Gulf. Recent satellite imagery indicates that the facility remains active.
Several Iranian statements during early 2011 almost certainly referred to this facility. Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), stated in February 2011 that: "The final phase of research to produce long-range radars is complete and the production phase will start soon."
Four months later, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said: "The Ghadir radar system, which covers areas 1,100 km in distance and 300 km in altitude, was put into operation for the first time [during the recent Great Prophet 6 exercise]. The Ghadir radar system has been designed and built to identify aerial targets, radar-evading aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles as well as low-altitude satellites."
The third and most recently constructed radar was built 350 km to the west of the prototype in a mountainous part of Kordestan province. Airbus Defence and Space satellite imagery shows construction at the site 27 km north of the city of Bijar began in mid-2012 and was mostly complete by October 2013.
Like the Garmsar radar, it has four primary arrays, each 39 m in length. However, the large openings left at the corners mean the resulting square has far longer sides. A central vertical array had not been constructed by October 2013, but all the corners have dual towers housing supporting components such as height-finding arrays.
The primary arrays are oriented in such a way that they provide excellent overlapping coverage with the Ghadir system near Garmsar.
The differences between the two sites suggest the possibility that the one in Kordestan is the 3,000 km-range Sepehr system that Iranian officials have referred to in recent years.
Brig Gen Esmaili said in March 2013 that the Sepehr would become operational in the Iranian year that ended on 20 March 2014. He expanded upon this the following August, saying: "The executive stages of the Sepehr space radar with a range of over 2,500 km have been accomplished and the point for its deployment has also been specified."
The timeline subsequently slipped. Brig Gen Esmaili stated on 16 February that the Sepehr would be operational before the end of the following Iranian year.
If the Kordestan radar is the Sepehr and has a detection range of 3,000 km, it would provide 360o coverage of all Iran as well as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Pakistan. It also provides partial coverage of Eastern Europe, southwest Russia (including Moscow), western India and most of the Arabian Sea.
More long-range Iranian early-warning radars revealed - IHS Jane's 360
Probable Sepehr radar complex
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Western military charter plane lands in Iran
By Adam Goldman and Karen DeYoung September 5 at 3:37 PM
An aircraft chartered by coalition forces in Afghanistan, en route from Bagram air base to Dubai, landed Friday in Bandar Abbas, Iran, after Iranian officials questioned its flight plan, U.S. officials said.
The plane had been contacted by Iranian air traffic controllers, who instructed it to return to Afghanistan and file the correct plan. When the pilots informed the Iranians they did not have enough fuel to return to Bagram, they were asked to land.
One official said Iranian fighter jets had escorted the plane, which was carrying approximately 100 Americans and possibly a pair of Canadians, to the ground. Other officials denied that, and said the plane landed on its own. It was expected to resume its flight quickly.
The plane was chartered from Fly Dubai, a company based in the United Arab Emirates.
A spokeswoman for the UAE Embassy in Washington said she was aware of the incident but did not have additional information.
Western military charter plane lands in Iran - The Washington Post
By Adam Goldman and Karen DeYoung September 5 at 3:37 PM
An aircraft chartered by coalition forces in Afghanistan, en route from Bagram air base to Dubai, landed Friday in Bandar Abbas, Iran, after Iranian officials questioned its flight plan, U.S. officials said.
The plane had been contacted by Iranian air traffic controllers, who instructed it to return to Afghanistan and file the correct plan. When the pilots informed the Iranians they did not have enough fuel to return to Bagram, they were asked to land.
One official said Iranian fighter jets had escorted the plane, which was carrying approximately 100 Americans and possibly a pair of Canadians, to the ground. Other officials denied that, and said the plane landed on its own. It was expected to resume its flight quickly.
The plane was chartered from Fly Dubai, a company based in the United Arab Emirates.
A spokeswoman for the UAE Embassy in Washington said she was aware of the incident but did not have additional information.
Western military charter plane lands in Iran - The Washington Post
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Iran announces progress on long-range SAMs
[size=10pt]Iran's air defence commander, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, claimed in a series of announcements made on 28 August and 1 September that the Islamic Republic is making progress on two indigenous long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) programmes.
He said on 28 August that the Bavar-373 SAM had been successfully test-fired for the first time. This announcement came almost three years after he revealed the system was being developed to replace the S-300 mobile, long-range SAM systems that Iran ordered from Russia, but which were cancelled after the UN imposed an arms embargo in 2010.
Although no imagery of the test was released, the Bavar-373 missile appears to have been shown for the first time in Iranian television footage of a military exhibition in Tehran on 28 August. The footage fleetingly showed a white missile with '373' written on it that appeared to be roughly the same size and shape as the ones used with the S-300P series.
It was displayed next to another previously unseen missile and a vehicle-mounted, rotating, planar-array radar that could be part of a mobile SAM system.
Brig Gen Esmaili said that Iran was working on another long-range SAM based on the old Russian S-200 system called the Talash-3, which he said had been successfully tested and would be unveiled on 22 September during Sacred Defence Week.
"Talash-1 and -2 were designed and unveiled in 2012 and 2013 with a short- and medium-range capability," the Iranian news agency Mehr quoted him as saying. "Talash-3, which is a combination of the S-200 and localised technology, has been designed and produced in 2014."
The only previous reference to an air defence system called Talash appears to have been made by Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan in November 2013, when he suggested it was a radar and/or command-and-control system for the Sayyad-2 SAM he was unveiling at that time.
"The Talash defence system was designed and built to detect and intercept targets for the Sayyad-2 missile," he said.
The Sayyad-2 is a land-based version of the RIM-66 (SM-1) naval SAM, while the Sayyad-1 is a copy of the Chinese HQ-2/Russian S-75 SAM.
Brig Gen Esmaili unveiled two new radar systems on 1 September: the Arash-2 and Keihan (or Keyhan).
Iranian television footage suggested the Arash-2 is a development of the 'Square Pair' target engagement radar used with the S-200 SAM.
"In the past, Arash-1 radar was designed and produced by Iran's army, but needed to be upgraded to be capable of quickly discovering micro air vehicles," Mehr quoted Esmaili as saying. "Arash-2 radar greatly facilitates the air defence and is compatible with the world's modern technology."
The Iranian media published photographs of the Keihan, showing what appeared to be a mobile, low frequency, early warning radar. Brig Gen Esmaili said it has "a long range and hybrid frequencies capable of discovering micro air vehicles and cruise missiles". He said it was better than its predecessor because it was mobile.
Brig Gen Esmaili said Iran was also introducing a new system called the FIC2 that receives and processes information from Iran's automated air traffic control centre and sends it to air defence command-and-control bases.
This system should make unintentional engagements of civilian airliners less likely. A classified Pentagon report obtained by The New York Times in 2012 said that Iranian SAM batteries had fired at civilian airliners at least three times during 2007-2008.
Brig Gen Esmaili added that Iran has developed the Hadi data transfer system to share information across its integrated air defence network.
Iranian officials have pointed to the alleged shooting down of an Israeli-made Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Natanz uranium enrichment facility on 24 August as evidence of the improvements made in the country's air defence network in recent years.
Israel would more likely use its Heron TP Eitan high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs to spy on Iran, not its Hermes 450s, which would be more vulnerable to Iranian air defences and at the limit of their operational range when over Natanz. Iran's ambassador in Baku said the UAV had not come from Azerbaijan.[/size]
Iran announces progress on long-range SAMs - IHS Jane's 360
[size=10pt]Iran's air defence commander, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, claimed in a series of announcements made on 28 August and 1 September that the Islamic Republic is making progress on two indigenous long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) programmes.
He said on 28 August that the Bavar-373 SAM had been successfully test-fired for the first time. This announcement came almost three years after he revealed the system was being developed to replace the S-300 mobile, long-range SAM systems that Iran ordered from Russia, but which were cancelled after the UN imposed an arms embargo in 2010.
Although no imagery of the test was released, the Bavar-373 missile appears to have been shown for the first time in Iranian television footage of a military exhibition in Tehran on 28 August. The footage fleetingly showed a white missile with '373' written on it that appeared to be roughly the same size and shape as the ones used with the S-300P series.
It was displayed next to another previously unseen missile and a vehicle-mounted, rotating, planar-array radar that could be part of a mobile SAM system.
Brig Gen Esmaili said that Iran was working on another long-range SAM based on the old Russian S-200 system called the Talash-3, which he said had been successfully tested and would be unveiled on 22 September during Sacred Defence Week.
"Talash-1 and -2 were designed and unveiled in 2012 and 2013 with a short- and medium-range capability," the Iranian news agency Mehr quoted him as saying. "Talash-3, which is a combination of the S-200 and localised technology, has been designed and produced in 2014."
The only previous reference to an air defence system called Talash appears to have been made by Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan in November 2013, when he suggested it was a radar and/or command-and-control system for the Sayyad-2 SAM he was unveiling at that time.
"The Talash defence system was designed and built to detect and intercept targets for the Sayyad-2 missile," he said.
The Sayyad-2 is a land-based version of the RIM-66 (SM-1) naval SAM, while the Sayyad-1 is a copy of the Chinese HQ-2/Russian S-75 SAM.
Brig Gen Esmaili unveiled two new radar systems on 1 September: the Arash-2 and Keihan (or Keyhan).
Iranian television footage suggested the Arash-2 is a development of the 'Square Pair' target engagement radar used with the S-200 SAM.
"In the past, Arash-1 radar was designed and produced by Iran's army, but needed to be upgraded to be capable of quickly discovering micro air vehicles," Mehr quoted Esmaili as saying. "Arash-2 radar greatly facilitates the air defence and is compatible with the world's modern technology."
The Iranian media published photographs of the Keihan, showing what appeared to be a mobile, low frequency, early warning radar. Brig Gen Esmaili said it has "a long range and hybrid frequencies capable of discovering micro air vehicles and cruise missiles". He said it was better than its predecessor because it was mobile.
Brig Gen Esmaili said Iran was also introducing a new system called the FIC2 that receives and processes information from Iran's automated air traffic control centre and sends it to air defence command-and-control bases.
This system should make unintentional engagements of civilian airliners less likely. A classified Pentagon report obtained by The New York Times in 2012 said that Iranian SAM batteries had fired at civilian airliners at least three times during 2007-2008.
Brig Gen Esmaili added that Iran has developed the Hadi data transfer system to share information across its integrated air defence network.
Iranian officials have pointed to the alleged shooting down of an Israeli-made Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Natanz uranium enrichment facility on 24 August as evidence of the improvements made in the country's air defence network in recent years.
Israel would more likely use its Heron TP Eitan high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs to spy on Iran, not its Hermes 450s, which would be more vulnerable to Iranian air defences and at the limit of their operational range when over Natanz. Iran's ambassador in Baku said the UAV had not come from Azerbaijan.[/size]
Iran announces progress on long-range SAMs - IHS Jane's 360
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Welding a bunch of rusty metal pipes together won't make you a radar. You're becoming the laughing stock for the whole world with these "achievements"
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