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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
“Iraq needs a sophisticated air defence system,” Bader Al-Ziyadi, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defence committee, said in October. Al-Ziyadi noted that the current year’s budget would not fund such an expensive purchase but underlined that the country needs to improve its air defences. He isn’t wrong. After all, Iraq hasn’t had any formidable air defences for over 30 years now. In the post-2003 period, the only notable air defences Iraq purchased were some medium-range Russian Pantsir-S1 systems in the 2010s. However, these are designed for point air defence of limited areas…