Press TV – Oct 13, 2021
Iran’s Armed Forces have unveiled new homegrown air defense systems, which operated flawlessly to intercept and destroy cruise missiles fired at them, on the second day of large-scale aerial maneuvers.
On Wednesday morning, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF)’s Majeed defense system and the IRGC Aerospace Division’s Dezfoul defense system successfully destroyed cruise missiles launched toward the location of the drills.
Codenamed “Modafean Aseman Velayat 1400” (Guardians of “Velayat Sky” 1400), the military exercise kicked off in the central Semnan Province on Tuesday.
The commander of the country’s Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base said building a strong and multi-layered defense against cruise missile attacks was one of the goals of the joint specialized air defense drills, which were carried out by different defense systems of the Army and the IRGC.
The air defense systems are “fully prepared to protect the country’s sensitive and vital facilities by forming safe layers of defense,” Brigadier General Qader Rahimzadeh said on the sidelines of the drills on Wednesday.
Rahimzadeh also said that the Army’s indigenous Joshan and Khatam air defense systems shot down targets during the exercise.
“Continuing the main phase of the exercise, the Joshan and Khatam indigenous air defense systems of the Army Air Defense Force destroyed hostile targets that intended to infiltrate the exercise area at low altitude,” he said.
He explained that the two defense systems were used for the first time during the exercise.
Iranian air defence system during Guardians of Velayat Sky 1400 2021 drill. Click to enlarge
According to the general, the Joshan defense system is an upgraded version of the Khordad 15 defense system, which uses a passive radar. The system, he said, destroyed the targets designated by the integrated air defense network during the second phase of the drills.
General Rahimzadeh stressed that the country’s Armed Aorces will not hesitate, not even for a moment, to strengthen Iran’s air defense capabilities.
“Accurate assessment of perceived threats in the airspace has driven us to develop defense systems commensurate with those threats, and thank God, there is no threat with which we have not thought of a way to deal,” he added.
Also on Wednesday, the indigenous Quds radar system of the IRGC Aerospace Division was put into practice.
The Quds radar is capable of locating targets at a range of over 500 km and an altitude of over 90,000 feet.
It features tactical and single-vehicle capabilities, homegrown software, the ability to deal with electronic warfare using various techniques, the ability to distinguish between friends and foes, and the ability to link with defense systems.
During the first day of the exercise, domestically-developed, air defense missile systems, radars, reconnaissance equipment, electronic warfare devices, communication systems and a visual surveillance network were put to test.
Iran’s Armed Forces regularly hold military maneuvers to elevate their preparedness and military prowess and to carry a message of warning to enemies against any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
At the same time, Iran has repeatedly assured other nations that its military power poses no threat to them, saying that the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities are defensive in nature.
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isel has taken out 6 countries by proxy
iran is the last one
but rumblings of discontent particularly among british soldiers say they wont fingh any more wars for israel
we are just hearing this from the USA too
maybe israel and the dirty jews will have to fight this one themselves
Todays news largely covered the early settlers to the UK after w w 2
in the windrush
dont forget that at the end of w w 2
when the men were being demobbed after w w 2
and desperate for work, the government ina horrfic act of racism
advertised the scarce mens jobs in the west indies saying quiote
“bring your families and come do the work englishmen are too lazy to do”
this infuriated the men who fought the governments racist war for it on the german people
and there were riots over british jobs being given away in places like Notting hill
this was an act of betrayal, a hate crime of monumental proportions on its own people
USRAHELL dont needs cruise missiles .
it has DEW SPACE LASER to burn
everything to hell ! 2017 Santa Rosa,
2018 Paradise/calif. maybe 2015 Tianjin.
And still us white gentiles, don’t have our own monoracial nation-state to exist in…yet the Afro-Asian simian hominids & mongrels of the world do…I guess we’re supposed to care about mongrels in Israel & Iran & their territorial disputes. Remember according to the perverted ethics of Jewish Christianity, humanitarianism & egalitarianism, if you’re a white gentile you’re supposed to value the lives of the colored scum of the world more than your own…
Nico X For your information Iranian people are Aryan, not semitic or Asian ..
I have spoken to few elder Iranian & they are more intelligent & knowledgeable than your average Big Bowl supporter..One thing I have learned that the so called “purim’ is bulls**t invented by some Hollyweird Granddaddy ( same for exodus)? Never happened in their history..
@Mr Reynard..yes originally Iran was inhabited by Aryans–the Medes/Persians…the Achaemenid Empire..Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes etc.. But over the many centuries since then, the Aryans mixed with alien non-Aryan elements and/or were liquidated by them, just like the ancient Egyptians & Greeks. Just view the masses of Iran today–all swarthy skinned with black hair/brown eyes–the mongrel residue of the original white Aryan stock…Sure, there’s probably a minority of Iranian men/women with brown hair or light skin tone, but that’s a rare exception..
Iran is our last hope to stop isreal taking the middle east then the wrold
they say god promised the jews the world
but the wrod jew means believer
but they were not, they killed him rememeber ?
we must suppor iran
god bless hezbollah