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Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:56
Exclusive: Iran Optimizes Hawk Missile Defense Shield

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has doubled the range of the area covered by the radar systems of its mid-range Hawk air defense missile shield and improved its tracking and targeting capability by 40%, Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli announced on Sunday.
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Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:42
Iranian Air Defense Preparing to Launch Space Radar in Months

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has accomplished building its Sepehr (Sky) radar with a range of 2500km and hopes to deploy and launch the system in coming months, a senior commander announced on Sunday.

“We hope that we can launch a major part of the Sepehr space radar system by the end of the next (Iranian) year (March 21, 2014-March 20, 2015),” Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli told FNA.

“By launching the Sepehr space radar, we can inform our vessels of remote threats in time and monitor and detect threats before they are put into action, and start our defense in depth and away from our borders,” he added.
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Mon 17 Feb, 13:35PM
Iran to Launch Home-Made Air-Defense Shield in Two Years

TEHRAN, Iran's top air defense commander announced on Saturday that the country would launch Bavar (Belief) 373 missile defense system - the Iranian version of the sophisticated S-300 long-range air-defense missile shield - in the next two years.

Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli told FNA that bottleneck problems for the construction of Bavar 373 infrastructures have been resolved, adding that 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 (2010-2015).

“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.
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