Iran develops radar to counter incoming cruise missiles

Iran is designing a new radar system which is able to counter incoming cruise missiles, senior Iranian military officials announced. Brigadier General Behrooz Jahedi of Iran''s Khatam ol-Anbia Air Base said the low-flying and long range aircraft as well as cruise missiles can be identified and targeted by the radar system. The new radar system with a range of 3,000 km can cover areas beyond the region, Jahedi said. Iran has also designed a GPS jammer that can redirect cruise missiles, he added. Also, another senior Iranian air defense commander announced on Saturday that the country plans to equip its air defense units with a state-of-the-art electronic warfare technology to be used for detouring enemies'' guided missiles. Speaking to Iranian (Fars) news agency, Lieutenant Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base for Electronic Warfare Colonel Moharram Qolizadeh pointed to the key role of electronic jamming systems in winning electronic warfare, and said Iran is seeking to go one more step to deceive and detour the incoming guided missiles. "When a guided missile is launched by the enemy, it is not possible to destroy it through jamming systems, but it is only possible to redirect it in a way that the missile loses its precision targeting capability," Qolizadeh added. "We have a project at hand that is in fact a stage ahead of jamming to ''deceive'' the incoming missiles," the commander announced, and stated, "At this stage, we disrupt transmission of data to the data processing unit of incoming missiles and reprogram it with our own information and redirect the missile towards our desirable point." He further said that the highly advanced technology will be used in the country''s air defense systems in the near future.