{"id":194249,"date":"2019-09-04T05:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194249"},"modified":"2019-09-06T06:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:17:35","slug":"deputy-commander-iran-to-upgrade-bavar-373-missile-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194249","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Commander: Iran to Upgrade Bavar 373 Missile Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fars News \u2013 Sept 3, 2019<\/h1>\n
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The Bavar 373: the Fakour command post vehicle (left), and the systems two radars. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Deputy Commander of the Iranian Army Air Defense Force General Mehdi Saqafifar announced on Monday the country’s plans to manufacture more advanced versions of the home-made Bavar 373 missile shield to cover longer ranges.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bavar 373 has a deadly range of 200km and given our country’s vastness, certainly our next steps have been taken towards building systems with longer ranges to destroy the threats,” General Saqafifar said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that studies for the construction of higher-range defense shields have started and are in the final stages, adding that the country aims to make newer versions of Bavar 373 too.<\/span><\/p>\n

General Saqafifar underlined that Iran paved a 10-year-long path to construct Bavar 373, while the developed countries spent 70 years to build such a missile system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has made good progress in building different home-made air defense systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country last Thursday unveiled the home-made version of the sophisticated Russian S-300 missile defense system, dubbed as Bavar (Belief) 373 with the capability to target ballistic missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bavar 373 was unveiled in a ceremony participated by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bavar 373 is the most important indigenized missile defense system whose design and manufacturing started a few years ago and can engage multiple targets in high altitudes,” General Hatami said, addressing the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that the Iranian defense industry experts have gone through the reverse engineering phase and\u00a0designed and manufactured the parts relying on domestic capacities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The anti-air defense system can detect 60 targets, identify 13 targets and engage 6 targets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The system is much more powerful than the Russian S-300 and some of its features could be compared with S-400.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If all the claims about it are true, the recently unveiled Bavar 373 is a formidable air defence system but Iran is already looking to improve it. Just as Russia did with the S-300 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":193630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194283,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194249\/revisions\/194283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}