Iran has signed an agreement with French aerospace company Thales Group to buy three Airport Surveillance Radars for Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport and airports of the southern cities of Shiraz and Bandar Abbas.
The agreement was signed in a meeting between Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi and French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies in Tehran on Tuesday.
The new state-of-the-art radars will replace the dilapidated equipment that have been in use in Iran’s airports, including one in Mehrabad which is 18 years old, to facilitate landings and increase flight safety, member of the board of directors at Iran Airports Company, Seyyed Ahmad Momeni, was quoted by IRNA as saying.
