Iran to Launch Home-Made S-300 Air-Defense Shield in Two Years, Stage Massive Drills
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Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli confirmed that the bottleneck problems for the construction of Bavar 373 infrastructures have been resolved.
He further added that the development and construction of the highly advanced anti-missile defense system would be accomplished by the end of Iran's Fifth Five-Year Development Plan.
"We hope to witness a very good system with higher capabilities than the Russian S-300 in our air defense structure by the end of the Development Plan", added the General.
The air defense commander reiterated that "the indigenized system will be more powerful than S-300 missile system".
Another senior Iranian military commander announced last May that the country would soon unveil the home-made long-range air-defense missile system which is similar to the Russian S-300.
"This system, dubbed as Bavar 373, is being developed in the country and will be officially unveiled soon," Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri said in May, 2013.
He noted that the Bavar-373 missile defense system has reached the production stage and its subsystems have been already tested.
In parallel, Iran's Basij Force plans to stage massive drills in the Northwestern province of West Azarbaijan on Thursday and Friday, a senior commander announced on Saturday.
"The drills will be staged concurrently in all towns of the West Azarbaijan province on February 20 and 21," Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps for Operations in West Azarbaijan province Karim Alinejad announced.
"Thirty-one ‘Towards Beit al-Moqaddas' battalions consisting of the male members of Basij force and one ‘Kosar' battalion of female members will take part in the drills," he added.
Alinejad said 90 other battalions, which include those comprised of clergymen and athletes as well as Ashoura and al-Zahra battalions, will also participate in the wargames for logistic and backup.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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