Army Recognition:
Iran’s Air Defense unveiled a new indigenous air defense missile system on Wednesday in a military parade marking the National Army Day on 18 April.
One of the major attractions spotted during the parade in Tehran was the new air defense missile system, dubbed “Kamin-2”. It is a short-range air defense system designed to take out reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as manned airplanes and helicopters flying at low altitudes. This latest military system is an upgraded version of the Mersad missile system.
The move flouts international restrictions on such weapons and will be seen by many as a direct challenge to President Donald Trump’s attempt to “strangle” the Iranian missile programme, as well as to scrap the current agreement on the country’s civilian nuclear programme and force Iran to accept to renegotiate a new one, which Teheran and Moscow have already firmly refused (the European Union has declared its will to keep on implementing the current agreement, even if French President Emmanuel Macron declared on 25 April in Washington that a new agreement should be envisaged).
