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The air defense command maintained its headquarters at Port
Sudan and was commanded by a major general. A secondary command
post was at Omdurman. One of its two brigades was equipped with
antiaircraft guns and the other was armed with SAMs (see
table 14, Appendix). The three battalions of SAMs had been introduced
to provide high- and medium-altitude air defense for Port Sudan,
Wadi Sayyidna, and Khartoum. In the absence of Soviet technicians
who had serviced the missiles and associated radar during the
1970s, the SA-2 systems were considered to be nonoperational.
The second air defense brigade was deployed to provide
tactical air defense in the Western Command and Southern Command.
In addition to Vulcan 20mm self-propelled guns supplied by the
United States, it was equipped with a variety of weapons whose
operational status was uncertain. Fire control and acquisition
radar for the Vulcan and other systems was provided by the United
States, Egypt, and France. The vulnerability of Sudanese air
defenses was exposed in 1984 when a Libyan Tu-22 bomber was able
to overfly much of the country in daylight, dropping bombs in the
vicinity of the national radio station at Omdurman at a time of
tension between Nimeiri and Qadhafi.
Data as of June 1991
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