Royal Jordanian Air Force - Royal Jordanian Air Defence

Royal Jordanian Air Defence

• Royal Jordanian air defense is part of the Royal Jordanian Air Force is equipped with modern Surface-to-Air missiles and Anti-Aircraft guns and Radar stations, as well as modern Electronic Warfare center and electronic countermeasure which is linked to command and control (C2) centers.

As well as all of its members have been trained to deal with any Airborne threat from the skies to defend the kingdom.

• Early Warning Capability
  • Jordan have a C4ISR subsystem capable of serving multiple internal services and agencies within Jordan and An Air Defense subsystem capable of early warning of air attack and real-time Command and Control (C2) of national air defense forces.
  • Jordan has the ability to detect cruise missiles and modern aircraft and unmanned drones at long distances through the project linking a group of modern Russian radar bought by Jordan recently with some U.S. 3D radars such as (FPS-117, TPS-43E) and Gap-filler radars with ADSI (Air Defence System Integrator) and all Fire Units to build air defence umbrella (IADS).

• Equipment:
• Air Surveillance Radars
  • 1 AN/FPS-117 3-D Radar (2 in Order)
  • 3 TPS-43E 3-D Radar
  • 5 AN/TPS-63 Tactical 2-D Radar
  • 5 Marconi S711 Radar (Upgraded by AMS UK in 2005)
  • Gap-filler & Border Surveillance radars
  • Unknown Russian 3-D Radars bought in 2009 ($25 million / 804.91 million Rubles deal).

• Gun System
  • 48 ZSU-23-4 Shilka
  • 181 M163 Vulcan (81 VADS transferred from Belgium to Jordan in 2005)
  • 216 M42 Duster (Phased out)

• MANPADS
  • 300 SA-7B
  • 300 SA-14
  • 200 SA-18 from Russia in 2001
  • 364 SA-24 182 Dzhigit launchers (2x Igla-S) on light vehicles + 1800 Igla-S missiles
  • 300 FIM-43C

• Short-Range Tactical SAM System
  • 50 SA-8 OSA-AKM Launchers + 1450 missiles
  • 50 9K35 ZREB-BD Gopher (Upgraded & Manufactured by JELS) Launchers + 1250 missiles
  • Unknown No. SA-22 Pantsir-S1E

• Medium & Long Range Air Defence
  • 22 MIM-23 Hawk Phase III with MIM-23B/E Missiles (upgraded from 1998 to 2008)
    • In the period from 1998 to 2008 was the purchase of the components of 8 Hawk Phase III batteries gradually and upgrade 14 old Hawk batteries to latest phase (Phase III ), Jordan has more than 1200 Hawk missiles (600 MEI-23E missiles), The decision has not been taken yet whether the system will be upgraded or it will be replaced by a modern air defense system from Russia (Buk-M2E) or Europe (SAMP/T, NASAMS) or USA (SL-AMRAAM ER).
  • 3 MIM-104 Patriot unknown type Batteries (12 launchers)
    • Jordan plans to deploy another four Patriot air defense batteries