Iran has tested its home-grown air defence system, designed to match the Russian S-300, the head of the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 air defence has said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn parallel with the deployment of the S-300, work on Bavar-373 system is underway,\u201d Farzad Esmaili told state broadcaster IRIB late Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe system is made completely in Iran and some of its parts are different from the S-300. All of its sub-systems have been completed and its missile tests have been conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bavar (which means \u201cbelief\u201d) is Tehran\u2019s first long-range missile defence system, and is set to be operational by March 2018, he added.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Iran began manufacturing Bavar-373 after the purchase of the S-300 from Russia was suspended due to international sanctions.<\/p>\n
Russia resumed the sale following the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers which lifted sanctions, and Iran\u2019s S-300 defence system became operational in March.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, state television aired the first footage from a \u201csecret\u201d drone base in an undisclosed desert location, where dozens of different types of unmanned aircraft were lined up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf necessary, a great number of Iran\u2019s high-speed eagles (drones) will land on the enemy,\u201d Esmaili said in the footage.<\/p>\n
Iran has developed several military drones in recent years, drawing criticism from Washington.<\/p>\n
Last month, the United States claimed Iranian drones flew dangerously close to an aircraft carrier and a US Naval jet in two separate incidents in Gulf waters.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the new defence minister Amir Hatami said Iran has \u201ca specific plan to boost missile power\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said he hoped \u201cthe combat capabilities of Iran\u2019s ballistic and cruise missiles\u201d would increase in the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran has tested its home-grown air defence system, designed to match the Russian S-300, the head of the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 air defence has said. \u201cIn parallel with the deployment of the S-300, work on Bavar-373 system is underway,\u201d Farzad Esmaili told state broadcaster IRIB late Saturday. \u201cThe system is made completely in Iran and some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}