Iran Army Day 2010

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This is the Sofreh Mahi stealth UAV that has so far passed two trials

 

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Iranian made Ra'ad 155mm artillery

Iranian made and upgraded Hawk air defense system


Zulfikar 3 MBT

Mobarez - Iranian Chieftan upgrade

 

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Armored anti-mine roller

Unknown tactical vehicle

Marine unit

 

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is that iran home amde s 300 missels i none of the pictures????

 

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is that iran home amde s 300 missels i none of the pictures????

Actually I do not understand what you wrote. Anyhow..

The designation that is being floated around is the Ir-300 Padafand (or "mooshake padafand" ; air defense missile) as no official one has yet come about. The launcher is based around an Iranian made Babr truck. I have posted images of the supporting platforms, command vehicle and radar mounts also. These launchers are of course parade dummies most probably. In any case it would be a ludicrous proposition if one is to assume the launchers actually carry any missiles for parade purposes. All such high-value systems that are paraded are dummies and this is for security systems. Iranian possession of the system is clear though given the supporting systems that were displayed as well (the radars shown are the ones used by the S-300 system).

Here is my personal take on this, regarding Russian support...

It allows Iran to retain it's indigenous cottage-industry, which is important not just for image and info-war reasons, but it also legitimately increases their technical skill, and in the future, they probably hope to produce all of it, not just assemble it (as I deem Iranian construction of it is partial).

- It allows both sides to play the global sphere - Iran gets to deny that it has received the S-300 while Russia gets to advance it's foreign policy goals by extracting concessions from Israel and the US in order to not deliver it.

- the perfect amount of uncertainty - if Russia delivers "X" batteries of S-300's, we know exactly how much and of what kind of capability they have, with a pseudo-indigenous program that might involve Chinese technical knowledge, a dash of Iranian flavor, based on an unknown version of the S-300, combined with zero information surrounding how many, if any are operational creates the perfect fog of war for Iran, which they are so adept at exploiting

Of course, it's definitly possible that there are other explanations including

- the same scenario as outlined, but with China instead of Russia.

- indigenous reverse engineering - if they did get a few batteries from elsewhere, it is entirely possible that in the 10+ years since they received them, they were able to reverse engineer them, 10+ years is a fairly long time if this is was the researchers #1 priority - which in this case, seems like a reasonable assumption. It might even be comparable to their missile or nuclear program in terms of how much resources, money and manpower, were poured into it.

However, we have also seen Iran make some remarkable advances in just the past few years when it comes to technology leaps, it's possible that this was enough to bypass any impasse it had experienced with regard to reverse engineering an S-300 from the 90's.

For instance, the IR-300 development could roughly parallel the near-exponential leaps Irans BM program has taken, that is, starting out relatively obsolete, but then advancing in leaps and bounds. The fact that Irans BM's are now more advanced then North Koreas, a party who traditionally was a teacher to Iran is evident of this.

In any case, too little information is available as of yet

 

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i said one of the photos look like s 300 system is that the one?

 

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i said one of the photos look like s 300 system is that the one?

Yes in that case it is

 

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Marine Commandos in digital BDUs,
armed with MPT-9 (MP5) SMGs

"Blue Battalion" Marines armed with G3-A4 battle rifles


Unknown unit

M113 armored personnel carrier (APC), armed with MGD-12.7 (DShK) heavy machine gun (HMG)

M548 all-terrain tracked carrier armed with
MGD-12.7 (DShK) heavy machine gun

Iranian-made Tosan (fury) combat vehicle reconnaissance (tracked) CVR(T),
armed with MRLS.


Iranian-made Oerlikon GDF-002 (Samavat) 35 mm twin cannon AAA

Iranian-made Safir light utility vehicle armed with Toophan (typhoon) ATGM