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=== Infantry Fighting Vehicles === |
=== Infantry Fighting Vehicles === |
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From 1925 to the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran was equipped with the very latest Western hardware. Cases exist where Iran was supplied with equipment even before it was made standard in the countries that developed it (for example the US F-14 Tomcat, or the British Chieftain Tank). Primary suppliers included the United States, Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Italy, Israel, and the Soviet Union.
The Iran–Iraq War, and post revolutionary sanctions at the time had a dramatic effect on Iran's inventory of western equipment. Under the pressures of war all supplies were quickly exhausted and replacements became increasingly difficult to come by. The war eventually forced Iran to turn towards the Soviet Union, North Korea, Brazil, and China to meet its short term military requirements. Initial developments in every field of military technology were carried out with the technical support of Russia, China, and North Korea to lay the foundations for future industries. Iranian reliance on these countries has rapidly decreased over the last decade in most sectors where Iran sought to gain total independence; however, in some sectors such as the Aerospace sector and missile technology Iran is still greatly reliant on external help. Iran has, at present, developed an uncanny ability to reverse engineer existing foreign hardware, improve it to its own requirements and then manufacture the finished product. Examples of this are the Boragh and the IAMI Azarakhsh. In an attempt to make its military industries more sustainable Iran has also sought to export its military products, see Iranian Military Exports.
Armored vehicles
Armored personnel carriers
- Cobra BMT-2 APC (Iranian Origin)
- Boragh APC (Iranian Origin)- 140+
- M113A1/A2 APC - 200
- EE-9 Cascavel APC - 35
- BTR-50/BTR-60 - 300
Infantry Fighting Vehicles
Tanks
- Zulfiqar MBT 1-3-100+
- Chieftain- Upgraded to Mobarez- 400
- FV101 Scorpion- 80
- M47 Patton/M48 Patton- 168
- M60A1- 50
- T-62 - 75
- T-72S- Assembled under license in Iran - 480
- T-72Z Safir-74/Type 59/Type 69- 540
- Tosan- Domestically produced light Tank, based on the FV101 Scorpion
Artillery
Towed artillery
105 mm
- M101A1 / M56
122 mm
- D-30/2A18M - 600
- PRC Type-54
152 mm
155 mm
203 mm
Self-propelled artillery
122 mm
155 mm
170 mm
175 mm
203 mm
Surface-to-surface missiles
This refers to ballistic missiles and not battlefield systems.
Iran's missile forces are under the command of the Revolutionary Guards, under the Army's authority.
Additional information is available at Air Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution who operate Iran's long-range missiles. Iran was reported to have purchased 18 mobile 3,200-4,000 km Musudan missiles (the extended range version of Soviet R-27 Zyb) in 2005.[3]
Cruise missiles
- AS-15 Kent / Kh-55 Granat-Soviet era missiles illegally purchased from Ukraine
Battlefield missile systems
Short Range (Iranian origin)
- Samid Artillery Rocket
- Fajr-2 Artillery Rocket (Multiple rocket launcher)
- Fajr-3 Artillery Rocket (Multiple rocket launcher)
- Fajr-5 Artillery Rocket (Multiple rocket launcher)
- Tondar-69 Artillery Rocket
- Oghab Artillery Rocket (Multiple rocket launcher)
- Shahin-II Artillery Rocket
- Naze'at Artillery Rocket
- Zelzal Tactical ballistic missile
- Fateh-110 Tactical ballistic missile
Anti-tank missiles
- Type 69 RPG
- Toophan (reverse engineered TOW missile)
- Toophan 2 (reverse engineered American BGM-71 TOW armor piercing)
- Toophan 3 (Iranian origin)
- Saeghe 1/2 (Dragon)
- AT-3 Sagger
- AT-4 Spigot
- AT-5 Spandrel / Konkurs (built as Towsan-1 or M-113 in Iran)
- Saegheh improved version of the RPG-7.
- RPG-7
- RPG-29
- MILAN
Air defence Missile Systems
- MIM-23 Hawk (Locally manufactured improved version of the original 1960s US Hawk system)
- SM-1 (locally manufactured copy of a c.1970s variant)
- Shahab Saqeb or Shahab Thaqeb(شهاب ثاقب) (copy of the Chinese HQ-7 (FM-90) system.This Project was First Joint Winner-Applied Research in 14th Khwarizmi International Award- 2001;Tehran-Iran -The Project Title:Production of Low Range Ground to Air Missile;Shahab Saqeb - Initiator:Iran Aerospace Ind. Org.& Contributor:D.I.O)[1]
- Sayyad-1 / Sayyad-1A (upgraded copy of HQ-2, Sayyad-1A has IR tracking. This Project was First Joint Winner-Applied Research in 14th Khwarizmi International Award- 2001;Tehran-Iran -The Project Title:Manufacture of Sayyad-1 Missile -Initiator:Iran Aerospace Ind. Org. Contributor:HESA & Arak Machine Ind.)[2]
- Ghareh (upgraded copy of SA-5 Gammon with 250 km range)
- SA-6 Gainful / Kub
- S-200 Locally upgraded and improved [3]
- S-300PMU1 (denied by Russian MoD) [4], possibly from Belarus.[5] (also denied by Iranian MFA)
- SA-15 Gauntlet / Tor-M1
- Rapier missile
- Tigercat
- SA-22 Greyhound (Pantsyr S1)[6]
Shoulder-launched missiles
- Misagh-1 (copy of Chinese QW-1)
- Misagh-2 (copy of Chinese QW-2)
- RBS-70
- SA-7 Grail
- SA-16 Gimlet
- SA-18 Grouse
Radar systems
Army aviation
The Army operates 188 airplanes, and 527 helicopters although it is not known how much of this inventory is actually operational.
Template:Standard table ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|Aircraft ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|Origin ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|Type ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|Versions ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|In service[5] ! style="text-align:left; background:#acc;"|Notes |- | Aero Commander || United States || utility transport || 690 || 4 || |-
| Bell 205 || Italy || light-lift utility helicopter || AB 205
Shabaviz 2-75 || 100 || built by Agusta and Panha
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| Bell 206 JetRanger || Italy
Iran || utility helicopter || AB 206A
Shabaviz 2061 || 40 || built by Agusta and Panha
|- | Bell 214 || United States || medium-lift transport helicopter || 214A || 56 || |-
| Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra || United States || attack helicopter || AH-1J
Panha 2091 || 150 || Model 2091 upgrade by Panha
|- | Boeing CH-47 Chinook || United States || Heavy-lift transport helicopter || CH-47C || 300 || built by Agusta |- | Cessna 185 || United States || utility || || 10 || |- | Dassault Falcon 20 || France || VIP transport || Falcon 20E || 1 || |-
| Fokker F27 Friendship || Netherlands || tactical transport || F27-400M
F27-600 || 8
6 ||
|}
Aircraft which have served recently and of which numbers may remain in reserve storage or second-line use include:
Small arms and personal equipment
Small arms
- S.5'56 assault rifle, copy of the Norinco CQ
- Khaybar KH2002 an Iranian designed 5.56x45 mm bullpup rifle
- SPG-9
- PC-9 ZOAF 9 mm pistol, licenced local production variant of the Swiss SIG P-226
- AKM Cal. 7.62x39 mm (supplemented by limited numbers of AK-47 and Type 56 rifles), recently Iran started the national manufacture of the Type 56 (Chinese AKM) rifle series as the KL-7. Whether this manufacture is under license or not, is unconfirmed at this time
- Heckler & Koch G3A6 Cal. 7.62x51 mm (licenced production)[7], main service rifle
- Heckler & Koch MG3 Cal. 7.62x51 mm (licenced production) [8]
- Tondar Sub-Machine Gun 9x19 mm (MP5 manufactured under licence)
- PKM
- Dragunov Sniper Rifle (local production)
- Steyr HS .50
- RPG-7 [9]
Other equipment
- Gas masks
- Bullet Proof Vests (used by specialized units and some army divisions, not yet standard issue)
See also
References
- ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/ground-equipment.htm
- ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/ground-equipment.htm
- ^ "Iran acquires ballistic missiles from DPRK, 29 December 2005" (html). Janes Defence Weekly. Retrieved 12 November.
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- ^ "World Military Aircraft Inventory", Aerospace Source Book 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 15, 2007.