Breaking Defense:

Arab Gulf States need to improve force integration, establish better shared-awareness capabilities, improve ISR and EW effectiveness, and move from commanding the battle concept to managing the battle, to successfully counter Iran’s evolving ballistic missile program, says Khalid Al Bu-Ainain Al Mazrouei, advisor to the deputy supreme commander of UAE Armed Forces.

Iran is working on utilizing its satellite launch vehicles (SLV) to build longer range ballistic missiles that will provide its arsenal with missiles that exceed the 2,500-km range it currently has.

“Iran is developing the Shehab-4/SLV with a range of 3,500-km, and Shehab-5/SLV with a range of 5,300, and this will increase the altitude of the missiles to 1,100-km, their trajectory, their speed, and narrow interception time,” the former commander of the air force and air defense of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said, in a presentation at the Manama Air Power Symposium. When they become operational, the missiles will be able to hit any target in Europe, as well as cover large parts of Asia and Africa…

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