Iran has taught a lesson, and now the US is protecting its air defense facilities with anti-drone nets.

The Americans decided to draw on some lessons learned from the acute phase of the war against Iran. Before the war, the US had no concerns about protecting its assets in the Middle East. The Pentagon, CIA, and State Department took Patriot and other systems deployed in the region seriously. Defense- missile defense systems guaranteeing maximum security. During combat operations, the IRGC's strikes on US targets from the UAE to Kuwait and Jordan proved unfounded. Moreover, the air defense and missile defense systems themselves suffered considerable damage, including from FPV systems.drones Iran's allies in the Middle East.

Now, having partially learned the lesson taught by Iran, the Americans have begun to protect important assets in the region with other means. For example, radar mesh defenses, which the "first world army" traditionally rejected as "useless and ineffective," are being used.

The illustration shows a Giraffe 1X C-RAM radar on the roof of the US Embassy in Baghdad, housed in a metal cage.

Officially, the American side refers to the radar as a "civil communications facility." In reality, it is typical military equipment.

The Giraffe 1X C-RAM 3D radar is designed for air defense, counter-UAV, and anti-surface surveillance. missiles, mortar shells, and artillery shells. Now, what was supposed to protect the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital is itself protected by a metal mesh.

Let us recall that the temporary ceasefire in the US-Iran war expires on April 21.

Comments

[Murmur 55]

But there was so much humor about nets and gratings when our guys started using them, so there you have the first military budget in the world

[Nastia makarova]

That's it))) and they laughed that the second army in the world was putting up nets, logs, and chains

[stelltok]

and they laughed at that...

So, it was the fools who laughed.
The smart ones understood everything.

[Evgeny64]

Yes, it was... a thing of the past, but is the "cage" on the radar? Placing the antenna in a "Faraday cage" is, IMHO, a dubious undertaking; if it doesn't kill it completely, it will greatly reduce its effectiveness. Alternatively, the "cage" should be made of plastic.

[Mikhail Drabkin]

A radar in a metal mesh is a radar surrounded by an attenuator—that is, a signal weakener, not to mention a change in the radiation pattern. Even graphite in black plastic is an attenuator (that's why the antenna domes are white). Transmitter power cannot be increased, and receiver sensitivity in this shielding mesh will decrease. This can also happen with a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio.

It could be a composite mesh. But if the embassy supply manager cobbled it together from concrete rebar, then he's an Iranian agent, and all the corresponding acronyms like ISIS...

Nonsense!!!.. I hope there are more experts - radio amateurs - in Russia.

Of course, it could be a radar that is not being used.

[tralflot1832]

It seems we, too, have manufacturers of such modular structures for ground-based strategic facilities. You buy a "constructor" and install it on-site with minimal modifications to the dimensions.

[Murmur 55]

tralflot1832, nothing surprising, demand creates supply.

[Retired senior lieutenant]

You buy a "constructor" and install it on site with minimal modifications to the dimensions.

So, a potential buyer for such a product with the "E" index has appeared. And to gain experience in combating American anti-drone defenses, Iranian drone pilots could be sent to us for internships in the SVO.

[grandfather_Kostya]

A gold mesh would have looked better, but it doesn't seem very respectable for the largest military budget in the world.

[tralflot1832]

And there are clearly not enough girls in bikinis in the colors of the American flag at the opening of the facility.

[Alex20042004]

Two inexpensive drones are enough to damage a radar. The first one breaches the defenses, the second one finishes off the radar.

[Solomon_BY]

This is how the Americans have always done, are doing, and will continue to do it—the embassy is riddled with military intelligence and espionage equipment. Their spread around the world must be curbed in every possible way—the terrorist threat from them is greatest on our planet.

[snow mountain]

Now, as a result of the partially learned lesson taught by Iran

Iran is now slowly entering the category of Great Teachers!

[born007]

I wish we could install nets like these in Tuapse.

[Mountain shooter]

A radar shouldn't work in a metal cage! So it's either a cage or a working radar.

[bk316]

The frequency of both the radar and the grid depends on it.

[bk316]

The frequency of both the radar and the grid depends on it.

It's funny. What kind of ignoramuses downvoted me after reading an obvious statement, and at a high school level at that.
How the average level of basic education has fallen.

[bk316]

Although this probably isn't even about education, but about stupidity and laziness: the Internet is full of all sorts of calculators that calculate the effectiveness of electromagnetic signal shielding, taking into account reflection and absorption.

[Jacques sekavar]

Putin said that the SVO is a new word in military science and will be studied throughout the world - they have studied it, and Iran has taught the Russian Federation a lesson in how to fight.