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Iran has developed the capacity to reverse engineer existing foreign hardware, adapt it to its own requirements and then manufacture the finished product. Examples of this are the Boragh IFV. In an attempt to make its military industries more sustainable Iran has also sought to export its military products.
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...
In recent years, the Iranian government states that it has self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems. Iran established an arms development program during the Iran–Iraq War to counter the weapons embargo imposed on it by the U.S. and its Western allies. Since 1993, Iran has manufactured its own tanks, armored ...
On September 03, 2020, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said his country is capable of manufacturing more than 38,000 military equipment and hardware parts. [14] In February 2023, Iran reported that had tripled its military products exports in 2022 while its self-sufficiency in military needs had reached 93%. [15]
IISS (2020). The Military Balance 2020. Routledge. ISBN 978-0367466398. (in French) Alain Rodier, "The Iranian Menace" (PDF)., French Centre for Research on Intelligence, January 2007 – Order of Battle, strategy, asymmetric warfare, intelligence services, state terrorism. Includes detailed order of battle for both regular army and ...
Armor is said to be welded steel which protects from 12.7 mm machine guns. Troops can fire their weapons from 8 small firing ports in the sides. [3] A list of Iranian military vehicles published in 2020 described the Sarir/Tala'iye as a prototype that did not enter mass production. [4]
Iran possess latest S-300 version S-300PMU2. Obtained 4 batteries from Russia. Russia has completed the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, IRIA news agency quoted Russia's state arms export agency as saying on Thursday Oct 15 2016. Iran announced that it had a "domestically made" system with the same capabilities as the S ...
Martyr Haj Qasem (Persian: موشک بالستیک شهید حاج قاسم) is an Iranian ballistic missile which was unveiled in August 2020. It is named after the Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US in January 2020. [5] Haj-Qasem's range is 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) with a warhead weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 ...