AWACS most serenely are needed but Iran wants to build them by it self they are working on the first one actually so i guess they will buy just a couple until there own is ready , the airliner was because of olf Russian SAM called
Tor-m1 Iranian version of it called
Oghab ( eagle ) is ready for mass production The Iranian version dose not make the same mistake as its more advance and has EO visual confirmation of the target at day or night here you can see the picture below its from Iranian built EO camera filming US cargo plane , but i agree Iran need alot more investment in its EW capability.
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Iran needs atleast thirty forty AWACS fleet. And no yr technology and scientific base isnt what strong that u can build something like that. Its mostly 1st world stuff.....
U can keep building yr own AWACS in sidelines but buy it from China/Russia so u know how to first operate it and specially how the modern datalinked network centric warfare works as well as specially how ELIANT and Electronic warfare works.
Russian Tor systems also has target recognition systems, but yr men arnt trained or aware enough of how to use them. There is something which is called target recognition and identification{so u know yr firing at the right thing} before firing thats what those Syrians also did when they blew up a Russian Maritime Aircraft while targeting Israeli F16s.
The lack is in Education, awareness and training of handling sophisticated weaponry! Iranis/Syrians and even Russians to some extent {who all have been isolated and absent from modern defence warfare and defence market for so long lack the means as well as awareness to fight a modern network centric warfare}. Now thats something these Israelis and Turkeys always show!
These pictures that u showed have nothing to do with an AWACS aircraft or EW systems. These are mere telescope of different types/technologies useful in UAVs or for some SAMs.
Without extensive air experience you cant build an effective and modern AWACS and ELIANT/ ISR/ AEW/ and alove all an ECM/EW system which is jamming resistant. And ALL THAT WILL BE USELESS WITHOUT A POWERFUL AND CREDIBLE DATALINK like our Link 17/Link Green. Which will link up all air land and naval assets ie from Aircraft to UAVs to SAMs to radars in air land and sea together to fight as one single unit linked in a single Command and Control Room in C4ISR.
NATO/Israel has Link-16 for this purpose. If u had this all capability, Yr situational awareness would have been top notch, And that airliner would have never been fired at in the first place no matter how much it diverted from its path. You know why? Because multiple air assets grond assets all linked together in a single datalink giving the entire situational awareness to a single C4ISR command would not have simply granted permission to fire that Tor M battery's crew to fire in the first place!
Thats what im talking about! Thats what those Hindus did in operation swift retort on 27 feb 2019 when they blew up their own military helicopter thinking they have shot down an F16 thats another great example of lack of situational awareness in a battlefield.
