Stryker1982
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I never specified a number of TJ-100 production, but i think it's fair to say since this engine is among the first ones reverse engineered in iran since the early 2000s and number of CMs require use of it. Overall production should be in the hundreds. it has also seen use in Yemen, suggesting it is not a limited and precious stock like the Hoveziyeh engines would be which are much more difficult expensive and time consuming as you suggested.We have no proof of this. Unless someone has videos of production line. I would look at how many Quds Youthi’s have fired at Saudi Arabia to gain some insight and extrapolate to Iran’s defense industry and increase a factor of X for not having to smuggle the engines/components like Houthi’s have to do since I doubt they have all the raw materials in country to build the engine.
We know reduced production rate for KH-55 based missile derivatives was due to engines and the complexity of building that type of engine at a reasonable cost for Iran.
So contrary to public belief Iran doesn’t build everything in large numbers like a magical Santa’s elf shop.
This is exactly what i wanted to talk about.We have no proof of this. Unless someone has videos of production line. I would look at how many Quds Youthi’s have fired at Saudi Arabia to gain some insight and extrapolate to Iran’s defense industry and increase a factor of X for not having to smuggle the engines/components like Houthi’s have to do since I doubt they have all the raw materials in country to build the engine.
Unfortunately their is no definitive number of uses of quds-1 or their variants, We have no specifics of type of missiles or drones, which are mostly in the short range, the use of UAS could also be confused with Quds-1. Considering the age of this engine, fair to say a several hundred would have been produced over last 10 years.