Iran Air Defense Systems - Islamic World News

Arman is a medium-range high-altitude air defense system designed to protect sensitive areas against aerial threats such as short-range ballistic missiles, anti-radiation missiles, cruise missiles, guided aerial bombs, helicopters, and drones. Some of the key features of the Arman air defense system include a response time of less than 20 seconds, 360-degree operational area coverage, the ability to engage up to 6 targets simultaneously, and deployment readiness within 3 minutes.

Sevom Khordad is an Iranian road-mobile long-range high-altitude defense missile system that has the ability to hunt targets up to 200 km. Sevom(3rd) Khordad system has become known as the “Vulture Hunter” after shooting down the advanced US RQ-4 Global Hawk drone near the Strait of Hormuz in the southern waters of Iran.

The Bavar-373 is the longest-range air defense missile system of the Iranian Armed Forces and is considered a strategic and very important achievement in the field of Iranian air defense systems. In its latest test, Bavar-373 detected a target at a range of more than 450 km by the optimized radar and tracked it at a range of about 405 km and hit and destroyed the target at a range of more than 300 km with the new Sayyad-4B missile.

ISWNews Analysis Group: The joint air defense drill, codenamed ‘Modafe’an-e Aseman-e Velayat 99′, kicked off on October 21st with participation of the IRGC aerospace force, Army’ Air Force and the Air Defense Force in the Semnan region.