Iran’s air defence systems would struggle to stand up to a substantial aerial bombardment on the scale launched by Tehran last weekend.
The Iranian regime will likely be breathing a sigh of relief – its ageing air defence systems would struggle to stand up to a substantial aerial bombardment on the scale launched by Tehran last weekend.
Iran’s system is built largely around the Russian S-200 and S-300 missile systems, which were first put into operation in the 1960s and 1970s. The latest model is said to be able to down incoming aircraft, drones and missiles at a range of 93 miles .Iranian officials have acknowledged the Soviet-era kit is complemented by domestically produced Bavar-373 systems.
Systems like Arman, Tactical Sayyad and Khordad-15 are deployed as part of a layered defence. They are believed to be capable of hitting targets at a range of around 124 miles at different altitudes.Arman is a truck-mounted system that was unveiled in 2022, and is said to be designed to be capable of hitting ballistic missiles – something the Russian systems in Iran are not able to do.
He told Reuters that the modern F-35 American-built stealth jets would be more than capable of evading Tehran’s surface-to-air missile systems.“The Iranian air defence network is certainly not impenetrable to these aircraft, but this raises the risk of losses and the Iranian capacity to, at least in theory, intercept some incoming standoff munitions increases,” Dr Kaushal said.
The Sukhoi-24 jets were first developed in the sixties. Amir Vahedi, Iran’s Air Force Commander, said this week they were in their “best state of preparedness” to counter any Israeli strikes.
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