Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Iran is reportedly providing Russia with anti-drone radars, in addition to the kamikaze drones it has already been providing. Ironically, the radars are said to have been designed for Iran by a Russian engineer after Russia had declined to develop them itself. ⬇️

2/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, "Iran is currently supplying Russia with its radar systems for detecting and combating low-observable flying vehicles – UAVs."

3/ "It turned out that the Russian military-industrial complex and the armed forces do not produce and do not possess the required number of systems that could successfully counter low-observable targets."

4/ VChK-OGPU says that according to a source, the decision was made to purchase the necessary radars from Iran. It doesn't say what kind the radars are, but it's likely that they are Shahid Jalilvand systems (pictured here during a recent Iranian exercise).

5/ The Shahid Jalilvand medium-range phased array radar system was publicly revealed on Iran's National Army Day on 18 April 2023. It has been in operational use for the first time in Iran's 1402 Joint Drone Exercise that began on 3 October 2023.

6/ The Fars news agency reports that it offers "3D target detection, tactical capability for rapid reaction operations, long endurance, and utilisation of modern techniques for precise angle measurement and anti-electronic warfare equipment."

7/ However, according to VChK-OGPU, the Iranian radars being provided to Russia were actually designed by a Russian and Soviet scientist and engineer named Efir Shustov, who was one of the developers of the Duga over-the-horizon radar (pictured here near Chernobyl in Ukraine).

8/ VChK-OGPU reports that Iran recruited Shustov to develop a radar to detect low-observable targets, spy drones and attack drones (presumably being operated by the US and Israel) after the Russian government declined to fund his work in that area. It reports:

9/ "The Research Institute of Long Range Radar (NIIDAR), where Shustov worked and where radio-technical complexes were developed, became unnecessary and later it was "picked up" by AFK "Sistema" and merged into the holding company "RTI", where it was safely buried."

10/ And the land where the research institute was located in the area of Preobrazhenskaya Square [in Moscow] was used for the construction of housing and business class offices."

11/ The decision to close down the NIIDAR and abandon development of radars to detect low-observable targets meant that Russia has been unable to counter Ukraine's use of long-range kamikaze drones. Now, VChK-OGPU says, it is having to buy back the technology from Iran. /end

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