During the last decade Iran has made very significant strides in the developmnent of its Air Defence (AD) systems and network. Initially, during the last century it benefitted from purchases from the USA and UK and subsequently from Russia, the Ukraine, Croatia and China but it did not start to esablish an industrial capability until about 2004 with the first indigenous radars coming on stream in 2008.

Since then it has made very good use of the whole RF spectrum with OTH radars covering very long range detection, D- E/F-band radars deployed for management of air traffic, both commercial and military then I- and J-band for ship and air navigation, coastal defence and weapon control systems respectively.  Currently it is working toward total integration of the landbased assets to enable a real time picture of total air activity at all levels in and around Iran.

To view the current Iranian indigenous radar inventory as it is known, download the REDB then using the Auto-Filter in the NAT (Nationalty column) choose 'Contains' and enter 'IR' for Iran. The listing will then only show the indigenous solutions and their known Aliases.

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