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Ground-launched version the air-launched Almas, top attack weapon with a range of 8 km. [citation needed] Unlicensed clone of Israeli Spike. [52] Raad: Anti-tank guided missile Iran: Manufactured in Iran under the name Raad. [citation needed] 9K111 Fagot: Anti-tank guided missile Soviet Union: 9M113 Konkurs Towsan-1: Anti-tank guided missile ...
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 personnel carriers, missiles, radars, boats, submarines, unmanned aerial vehicles, and fighter planes.
Close-in weapon system +++ Sa'ir (Iranian KS-19) 100 mm anti-air gun +++ Iranian made optoelectronics-guided 100mm anti-aircraft gun. It can detect and intercept targets automatically at long and medium-range altitude. Specifications: Range: 21 km Altitude: up to 16 km Rate of fire: 26 rounds per minute Samavat (Iranian Oerlikon GDF) 35 mm anti ...
In 1973, the Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) was founded to organize efforts to assemble and repair foreign-delivered weapons. [3] [4] Most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United States and Europe. Between 1971 and 1975, the Shah went on a buying spree, ordering $8 billion in weapons from the United ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Post–Cold War weapons of Iran (36 ...
Iran started a major campaign to produce and stockpile chemical weapons after a truce was agreed with Iraq after 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War. [63] However, Iran ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997. Iranian troops and civilians suffered tens of thousands of casualties from Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War.
Redesigned F-5. Western analysts have described the plane as inefficient as a weapon, but having potential for training a new generation of Iranian fighter pilots. According to the Iranian state-media, this fighter jet has "advanced avionics" and multipurpose radar, and it was "100-percent indigenously made".
The 1941 invasion by the Allies of World War II resulted in a decisive loss for the Iranian forces, the deposition of Iran's Shah and five years of subsequent occupation, [3] while the 1980 Iraqi invasion began the Iran–Iraq War, which lasted almost eight years and ended in status quo ante bellum. The army has also been actively engaged in ...