Saer 100-mm anti-aircraft artillery
Iran remains one of the few countries where a significant amount of anti-aircraft artillery, including large caliber, is in service. Moreover, in the Islamic Republic, active work is still underway to create new types of anti-aircraft artillery systems of various types, which, apparently, is intended to compensate for the lack of modern anti-aircraft missile systems. As is known from the experience of local wars, anti-aircraft guns with massive use can create many problems even for aviation of a more technologically advanced adversary, since advanced electronic systems are not required for firing fire. In addition, air attack weapons that break through air defense systems at low altitudes are highly vulnerable to rapid-fire small-caliber anti-aircraft guns.
Iran has a stock of obsolete Soviet KS-19 100mm anti-aircraft guns, some likely captured from Iraq during the 1980s. The Sa’eer would be based on the Russian made anti-aircraft gun KS-19 or its Chinese equivalent the Type-59, but now equipped with automatic motorized positioning system and firing radar. A crew is still required for reloading. With automated targeting and alignment far greater accuracy should be obtainable, likely increasing effective range and altitude. The system is still unsuited to “CIWS (close-in weapon system)” type employment but a useful stop-gap addition to Iran’s more capable SHORAD (Short Range Air Defense) missile forces like SA 15 Tor deployed at Natanz. The Sa'eer can create a shield against enemy aircraft and missiles at medium and low altitude. The most important feature that it can be control by complete smart system which requires the minimum operating personnel.
In 2009, the Saeer 100-mm anti-aircraft gun was demonstrated for the first time. This instrument, created on the basis of the Soviet post-war anti-aircraft gun KS-19, is induced and controlled centrally from the battery command post. Tools equipped with electric power tracking drives and an automatic charging system connected with an optoelectronic control system fire without the participation of personnel. With an airborne target range of 21 km and a reach of 15 km in height, an anti-aircraft four-gun battery can launch 60 100-mm projectiles per minute against the enemy.
The Saer Air Defense System is an effective weapon against airborne threats at altitude. The anti-aircraft system, which is an option for air targets at high altitudes, has been designed and extensively developed by the Defense Industries Organization. Its features are automation. The operating system of this system is such that it intercepts a target with a radar or optical system and automatically captures the ability to fire without the need for the crew. This system destroys the desired goals compared to similar systems with a much higher reliability. The system consists of 100mm anti-aircraft guns combined with radar and optical system.
Changes made to this weapon include the design of an automatic weapon control system, the automatic loading of ammunition in a weapon, its coordination with the search and discovery system, the tracking and tracking of radar plus the optical system and possibly the heat. With this change, the number of crew of the gun, which included several people, was reduced to the smallest possible number, ie the whole process of finding the target, getting its coordinates and inducing the gun for proper orientation, and then firing the gun according to the dynamic status of the target flight without The requirement for the crew is applicable.
For this purpose, an advanced central fire control system, by receiving information from the systems, detects threats and allocates them to weapons. Not to mention that with these amendments, several 100mm rounds are integrated and can shoot multiple targets or attack specific targets with specific algorithms and by covering the surrounding area, the chance to hit the first firing Even against high maneuvers.
Also, the netting of these guns means that they are firing together. The firing rate of a shotgun from this breathtaking weapon is at least 20 rounds per minute. So, if for example, 4 rounds in the form of a shotgun, 80 rounds per minute will be achieved. It should be noted, however, that in a high-caliber weapon, the firing process is slower, and in this system, automatic bullet-proofing has somehow resolved this problem. The weapon is capable of targeting targets up to 18,000 meters in height, which means that all the high and low elevations are well covered, the altitude being the best space for airborne airstrikes.
Other striking points in the 100mm gun are the ability to fit bullets into the nearby fuse. In normal bullets, if the target is not hit, after reaching a certain height, the bullet will explode so that it does not miss the last chance to hit the target by releasing the shots. However, in ammo of this gun, the fuse explodes with distance detection from the target without detecting a direct collision, thus avoiding the possibility of damage to the target and leaving the crackers at a distance Hit the target. It also ensures the system's ability to engage in cruise missiles and other small targets.
Today short-range air defense systems in the country are connected in a network and receive the initial data from various sources. Each of these weapons has somewhat different characteristics and the initiative of domestic professionals to add more systems to detect targets, especially stealth threats, has given them more power.
There are 7 shells ready for firing in the gun. Installing a remote fuse when shooting automatically, for an anti-aircraft gun of this caliber it would be advisable to create a projectile with a radar fuse. But it is not known whether such projectiles are part of the Iranian anti-aircraft guns.
The official transfer of the first batch of 100-mm anti-aircraft guns Saeer to the troops took place in 2011. It is not clear whether the case was limited to an experienced party or a mass production of guns was established.
The anti-aircraft gun KS-19, adopted in service in the USSR in 1949, is considered hopelessly outdated and it is unlikely that the modernization attempt undertaken in Iran is capable of breathing new life into this artillery system. Modern anti-aircraft missile systems with similar indicators in range and altitude have a much higher probability of being hit, much more mobile, mask themselves better on the ground and require fewer calculations.
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