False! They used it during exercises, and it's far from a toy because it's supported by radar and optical systems. For me, Mesbah is an important and effective artillery system. If I were in charge of the army, I would have thousands of them produced.
A must for stopping cruise missiles, small drones and other low RCS, low flying threats.
Since when such systems can intercept ballistic missiles?
they have overlapping coverage so losing 2 is not a big deal. they are big fixed targets, they will always be the first targets destroyed. their goal is to alert iran to the attack not to survive
They are still expensive assets and in the absence of air borne radars, we will still need them to detect cruise missile attacks.
yes but losing 1-2 does not result in major gaps in coverage is my point. their purpose is to detect such an attack at the earliest stage possible.
But how many OTH radars do we have that we can afford to lose one or two? I know only 3 or 4 such radars in Iran. And we have lost at least one already.
I said in my original post there are 15
That's a relief. Still, probably not enough to cover most of the blind spots in Iran's mountainous terrain.
Can you provide any videos/photos of them being used in exercises? Because I haven't seen any. It's barely ever talked about. In theory, its a good system, but we have yet to see it in mass use or even in use by limited numbers. Please provide sources of where you've seen it in exercises
Same for Bavar-373 and most of Iran's indigenous systems. No actual evidence of use or mass production.
Bacar has been shown in use mass production is another story but since it takes years to of r and d on these systems with a decade or longer for the final product to be fully developed it’s not that uncommon otherwise everyone would have have thaad arrow 3 s 500 and etc…….
