Monday, October 22, 2007
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has reported that Iran has smuggled advanced surface-to-air missiles into Iraq for the purpose of downing U.S. combat aircraft.
Officials said Iran has transported man-portable SAM systems to Shi’ite allies in Iraq. They said some of the missiles have already been fired at U.S. Army helicopters.
“It’s a real concern, and it’s something that we’re dealing with,” U.S. Army Col. Daniel Shanahan said. “Right now we’ve got the best systems in the world, and we’ve got technology behind us.”
In an Oct. 19 briefing, Shanahan said Iranian SAM systems have forced army helicopter pilots to revise their tactics. He said the Iranian-origin missiles arrived in Iraq over the last three months.
“In the last several months, we have had an increased threat from systems that we had not seen in the first part of the year,” Shanahan said.
Shanahan did not identify the Iranian missiles. Over the last 18 months, Iran was said to have received the SA-18 Igla-S man-portable missile from Russia.
Officials said U.S. Army helicopters have been equipped with additional sensors and diffusers in an effort to decrease the infrared signatures of the air platforms.
They said the biggest threat has been from shoulder-launched heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, such as the SA-7.
Currently, man-portable air defense systems comprise five percent of attacks on U.S. aircraft in Iraq. The army operates the AH-64D Apache, the UH-60 Black Hawk and the CH-47 Chinook on a 24-hour basis.
“But if you ask the pilots, they would say that MANPADS is the biggest threat,” Shanahan said.
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