A battery of the air defense system includes up to six truck-mounted transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), phased array radar, a tracking radar, and a combat control post. Each TEL carries two Sayyad-4 anti-air missiles, which can take down air targets 260 kilometers away at altitudes up to 27 kilometers. The export version has been dubbed the AD-200 and is advertised as being similar to Russia’s top-level S-400 system, which Iran considered buying in the past.
Numerous other countries sent delegations and even warships to Doha for the DIMDEX show, including the US, which was perhaps unironically positioned next to the Iranian display. One US item on display was the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which in January 2019 was used to assassinate the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, during a peace visit to Baghdad, Iraq.