Iran Debuts New Air Defense System to Confront US Aircrafts

A senior commander of the IRGC announced that "the newly unveiled Raad air defense system has been developed to target aggressive US planes."
"The system has been built in a bid to confront US aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude," Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh stressed.

On the sidelines of the military parades marking the anniversary of the Sacred Defense Week, he added that the September 21 parades demonstrated Iranian Armed Forces' preparedness to defend the country.
"Given these capabilities, we announce that we will allow no one to even think about aggression against Iran," he confirmed.

For his part, IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari had informed on Sunday that his forces had started the production of the Raad system.
"The Raad air-defense system, which is more advanced than the Buckeye system has recently been developed and is now being mass-produced," Jafari told reporters in a press conference on Sunday.

"It ranges up to 50km and in altitudes from 25 to 27km (70,000 feet), Ra'd is ranked as a mid-range radar system," added the General.

Source: Fars, Edited by moqawama.org