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Samavat 35mm towed anti-aircraft twin-cannon
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The Samavat 35mm is an Iranian version of the Swiss Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon. This is a towed anti-aircraft gun made by Oerlikon Contraves now a subdivision of Rheinmetall Air Defence AG. Iran originally acquired GDF-001 systems with Fledermaus radars which were primarily deployed to defend air bases, later Iran bought 24 SkyGuard systems with GDF-002 cannon before the revolution and primarily deployed them as point defense for air bases and other strategic targets. In 2008 Iran unveiled a reverse engineered version which appears virtually identical to the GDF-001 and does not appear to include any of the design changes included in the later GDF-002>005 types now in service. Originally the Samavat 35mm was deployed to paved fixed sites at Iranian air bases, but was also deployed to ‘field sites’ during the Iran-Iraq war. More recently the fixed sites at air bases are usually empty, but the system is deployed in great numbers to key nuclear facilities particularly Natanz, Arak, Parchin, Bushehr and Esfahan. In January 2008, at the inaugural ceremony of the launch of the new 35 mm anti-aircraft cannon system, Iran's minister of defense, Major General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said speed, precision and quality are three basic characteristics of the anti-aircraft cannon and since countries possessing this technology refused to provide Iran with this system, Iranian experts decided to produce a prototype first, and in a short period of time thereafter full-scale mass production was launched. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iranian Skyguard all-weather fire-control radar system
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