New Iranian radar
This is not the first radar station that Iran introduced over the past year. In particular, in November 2013, a presentation of the station took place, which can simultaneously track to 100 targets.
In addition, in 2012, the Iranian authorities announced the creation of a radar system for tracking US unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the commander of the north-eastern air defense district, Abdullah Reshadi, the country now has all the means to detect such targets, which, if necessary, can be destroyed by Iranian air defense forces.
It is worth noting that the Iranian authorities have repeatedly announced violations of their air borders. drones USA. In December 2011, Tehran claimed that Iranian engineers had managed to take control of a large RQ-170 Sentinel drone by landing it on the ground. The United States asked to return the UAV, citing its malfunction, but Iran refused, saying that engineers would conduct a detailed analysis of the device.
In April, 2014, Iranian experts said that they were able to create an exact copy of the RQ-170. The presentation of the UAV was held at the exhibition of the military space forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the field of designing and manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles.
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