TEHRAN - Former Iranian defense minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday that the Air Force and the Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization have developed such a capability that they are able to build different fighter jets and other equipment.

Explaining that after Russia refused to deliver the S-300 missile defense shield to Iran, the Iranian Air Defense experts decided to build the system. “This system enjoys a highly complicated, big and advanced system but the defense industry and Army experts succeeded in building the missile shield as an instance of the high capabilities of Iran's defense sector today.”

Vahidi, who is currently the head of the Strategic Center of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ground Force is ready to stand in all battlefields by changing its defense doctrine.”

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