Iraq to receive US long-range detection radars

Modern American long-range detection radars will be delivered to Iraq in the near future.

Iraqi Defence Minister Juma Inad made the remarks on July 24, TASS reports.

"Advanced American long-range detection radars will be delivered to Iraq in the very near future," the Iraqi news agency INA quoted Inad as saying. He also noted that his ministry "seeks to conclude a contract [for the supply of] a short- and medium-range radar system for detecting targets".

Inada's statement was made at the founding ceremony of the new operational center of the Iraqi Air Defence Command, which, according to the minister, "will become the basis of operational actions of the entire Iraqi army". The Air Defence Command Center, Inad added, "will be connected to a new radar system", which will be supplied under an already concluded contract by the French company Thales.

In turn, the commander of the Iraqi air defence forces, General Maan al-Saadi, clarified that two high-detection radars have already been delivered to the country and will be deployed in the provinces of Anbar and Qadisiya. According to him, several more American radar systems will be deployed in the provinces of Ninawa, Basra and Kirkuk.