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Iran to equip Navy with sophisticated radar systems, vessels: Cmdr.

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the country’s naval forces will be equipped with a wide range of domestically-designed and -produced radars, vessels and submarines during the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20).

Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony commemorating the National Army Day in Tehran on Tuesday, Rear Admiral Sayyari stressed the Navy’s capability to produce sophisticated munitions and stated that different types of indigenous naval equipment, including radars, vessels and submarines, will be supplied to the Iranian naval force this year.

He also described the production of various kinds of torpedoes and surface-to-sea missiles as the most recent achievements of the Iranian Navy.

Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili said on April 9 that Iran’s air defense will deploy a new domestically-manufactured radar system in the near future.

“The new, completely indigenous Thamen radar system, which has been designed and produced by Iranian experts, will be added to the country’s air defense within the next 10 days,” he said.

The Iranian commander also noted that Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base has increased its deployment of locally-built surveillance systems, which are ‘unique’ in the Middle East region, across the country.

In a bid to enhance Iran’s air defense capabilities, Iran’s Army staged a major defensive military exercise, codenamed Tharallah, across a vast area in the country’s south in February, with the deployment of stationary and mobile home-built Kashef and Matla’ al-Fajr radar systems.

In addition to the Kaashef and Matla’ al-Fajr radar systems, the Kasta surveillance radar and Nebo mobile radar system were also deployed to detect, identify and report enemy movements to operational units.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and gained self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems.

The country has repeatedly made clear that its military might is merely based on the state’s defense doctrine of deterrence and that it poses no threat to other countries.

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