Saudi Arabia’s high-tech fence

Saudi Arabia has unveiled a 900km state-of-the art fence along its border with Iraq to ensure the war waged by so-called Islamic State doesn’t spill across its frontier. The $3.4 billion Northern Border Security Project was
built by Munich-based Airbus Defence and Space
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TURKEY

SYRIA

JORDAN

Turaif

Northern Border Security Project

RED SEA

IRAN

Baghdad

IRAQ

Hafar al-Batin

KUWAIT

SAUDI ARABIA

Riyadh

ANBAR PROVINCE

NORTHERN BORDERS PROVINCE

200km 125 miles
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Border barrier: 40 watchtowers equipped with Airbus SPEXER 2000 radars and day/night cameras, seven command- and-control (C2) centres, 38 separate communication towers and 32 military response stations

Barriers: Twin chainlink fences with razor wire, 100m apart, separated by concertina fence

Sand berms: Embankments designed to slow infiltrators

Underground movement sensors: Trigger silent alarms

Response stations equipped with heli-pads

Network: 1,450,000 metres of fibre optic cable connects C2 centres to Ministry of Interior 

240 rapid response vehicles

Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicles: 10 units, each fitted with SPEXER radar, video, thermal and night-vision cameras

ForensicaGPS: System linked to 3D face recognition software

SPEXER 2000 radar

Also known as TRGS Sec Detection Ranges 

Pedestrian (slow moving) 18km

Light vehicle 22km

Truck 36km

Light aircraft 27km

Low-level helicopter 36km
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Sources: UPI, Airbus Defence and Space, Animetrics’ ForensicaGPS

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