Bavar 373<\/p>\n
Iran has replaced air defences damaged during last month’s conflict with Israel, Iran’s Defah Press news agency reported on Sunday quoting Mahmoud Mousavi, the regular army’s deputy for operations.<\/p>\n
During the conflict in June, Israel’s air force dominated Iran’s airspace<\/a> and dealt a heavy blow to the country’s air defences while Iranian armed forces launched successive barrages of missiles and drones on Israeli territory.<\/p>\n “Some of our air defences were damaged, this is not something we can hide, but our colleagues have used domestic resources and replaced them with pre-arranged systems that were stored in suitable locations in order to keep the airspace secure,” Mousavi said.<\/p>\n Prior to the war, Iran had its own domestically-made long-range air defence system Bavar-373 in addition to the Russian-made S-300 system. The report by Defah Press did not mention any import of foreign-made air defence systems to Iran in past weeks.<\/p>\n Following limited Israeli strikes against Iranian missile factories last October, Iran later displayed<\/a> Russian-made air defences in a military exercise to show it recovered from the attack.<\/p>\n