(VOVworld) - Iran says it has deployed a new domestically built long-range radar system, signaling a strengthening of its air defenses. On state television Saturday, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ air defense force, unveiled the Ghadir phased-array radar in Ahwaz city in southwestern Khuzestan province near the Iraq border,
Iran says the Ghadir unit was designed and manufactured entirely inside Iran and can detect a plane at 600 km and a ballistic missile at 1,100 km.
The radar can also identify micro aerial vehicles.