İran has nothing . only copy of outdated technologies from Soviet and American weapons . only Turkiye has single crystal blade and blisk-spool manufacturing technologies for turbofan-turboshaft Engines in Islamic World
Iranian products dont have even international certificate
Turks were not in Aleppo and Mosul or in Dnipro and Kharkiv
but Turkish military industry including Drones gave a lesson to İran , Hezbollah , SAA in Idlib/Syria
even Turkiye produce 40% of F-35 Fighter Jet's cables
Turkiye's industrial capabilities the best in Islamic World
as of 2022 , TB-2 is 95% indigenous and the best combat proven hunter killer Drone in the World and dozens of Countries buys Turkish Drones
Because TB-2 Drones destroyed thousands of AFVs,IFVs,Tanks,Howitzers,MLRS also Air Defense and EW Systems in Syria,Libya,Karabakh and in Ukraine
Iran's efforts in the field of UAV are not to be underestimated.
Iran’s defense industry places heavy emphasis on the development and creation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance and lethal operations. Through a combination of indigenous research,
violations of international arms embargoes, and the
reverse-engineering of foreign UAVs that Iran has been able to acquire, Iran’s defense industry has developed a wide array of drones for military use. It is speculated that
Iran now fields a dozen different UAV models, with multiple variants of each model also existing.
Some of these models include the infamous
Abadil,
Fotros, and
Karrar drones—all of which are relatively cheap craft capable of carrying out surveillance operations, launching munitions to strike adversarial targets, or even conducting suicide attacks using the drone itself as a destructive payload. While Iran’s UAV program is at the core of its national security strategy, most Iranian UAV models do not stand up in
sophistication or effectiveness to Western drone models. Iranian drones, however, are well-suited to the strategic needs of the Iranian government and similarly cash-strapped governments with alike strategic challenges, and as such, their value to certain states should not be understated.
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The unique history of Iran’s development into a indigenous armaments producer has shaped a defense industry in Iran that is vastly asymmetric in its capabilities. While Iran’s defense industrial base is unable to domestically produce truly modern ground vehicles and aircraft—two core pillars of most contemporary militaries—it has demonstrated an impressive ability to reverse-engineer, upgrade, and maintain the aging weapons systems it has. Further, Iran’s focus on certain technologies, in particular ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, has yielded a wide array of uniquely Iranian armaments that Iran is capable of domestically manufacturing.
Despite these strides, decades of various international arms embargoes have left much of Iran’s military arsenal highly obsolete, and many of the weapons it has indigenously developed are still inferior to the Western, Russian, and Chinese armaments fielded by most of its regional and global adversaries. The recent expiration of the United Nations arms embargo, coupled with a possible lifting of sanctions on Iran following the reestablishment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, have the potential to change this reality in the long-term.
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(If it is desired to draw a framework that will cover the entire Defense industry)
The defense industry of Iran is organized under significant state control and is broadly overseen by the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL). Under the control of MODAFL are
a number of major industrial organizations responsible for the research and development, production, and acquisition of specific weapons categories. MODAFL also supervises several
research and education institutions, such as Malek-Ashtar University of Technology (MUT), which aim to prepare a stable pool of scientific and engineering talent on which the Iranian defense industry can reliably draw. In total, MODAFL and its sub-organizations collaborate with over
3150 firms and 92 universities to form the basis of the Iranian defense industry.
As of 2020, Iran spent at least
$15.825 billion on defense expenditures, which amounted to
11.709% of total government spending.
Some experts, however, believe that the true extent of Iran’s military spending is significantly higher than this reported figure, as much of the funding appropriated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is unknown even to those in Iran’s executive and legislative branches. Additionally, in the period from 2017-2021, Iran launched a major modernization program aimed specifically at the development and production of missile, air defense, naval, UAV, and electronic warfare systems—further growing Iran’s domestic defense industry and decreasing dependence on foreign imports despite the end of the United Nations arms embargo on Iran in 2020.
