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[AmirPatriot]

Iranian Soldiers: Equipment

Saturday, July 15, 2017
This is the third of a 3 part post on the Training, Structure, and Equipment of Iranian soldiers on the battlefield.

Of course one of the most important parts of improving the effectiveness of Iranian infantry is by improving their equipment. Because of the low-cost conscript nature of Iranian infantry, most forces are not equipped with armoured vests, and while helmets are readily available, they are mostly of the old Iran-Iraq war type without ear protection. Rifles are either the AK-47 or the G3, with no optics or attachments.

Though helmets are available, soldiers often wear baseball caps. This may cause discipline issues, as soldiers may not wear helmets in combat areas


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Special forces are relatively well equipped, modern rifles sometimes with optics, load bearing armoured vests, eye protection, and sometimes gloves and elbow/knee pads.

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To read the full post, click the link below, and leave a comment if you have anything to say.

http://irangeomil.blogspot.com/2017/07/iranian-soldiers-equipment.html

 

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Iran Army Tank Biathlon International Army Games 2017 ارتش در مسابقات بین المللی ارتش ها تانک ۲۰۱۷

 

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Iran Army Tank Biathlon International Army Games 2017 ارتش در مسابقات بین المللی ارتش ها تانک ۲۰۱۷

5:12 into the video our guy has Adidas Shoes on!!! COME ON!! It may be a friendly sports game but you still have to wear military gear! He would be in so much trouble if I was his commanding officer!

 

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Iran IRGC "Suvorov Attack" International Army Games 2017 China سووروف حمله بازی های بین المللی ارتش

 

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The International Army Games 2017
Iran

 

[MTN1917]

Law enforcement force's border guard command equipments showcased in a visit by Major General Bagheri

 

[mohsen]

جدیدترین دستاوردهای تجهیزاتی نزاجا رونمایی شد
3 new achievement by army ground forces:

Heydar77 system for existing 8*8 tactical vehicles:
design and manufacturing of a modular tower through installing of a fully automated, stabilized and remote controlled 23mm machine gun.

heydar 44 system for 122mm rocket launchers:
smart & automated fire control system for reducing the time between target acquisition and fire.
a smart system to choose the targets and automated extract of parameters from drone's provided images
automated transmission of the parameters to the gun
wired and wireless remote control system
design as a kit to be installed on all unites

Heydar44 system for 122mm self-propelled Howitzers:
design and manufacturing of an automatic magazine for the first time
reducing the number of required crew
wired and wireless remote control system

 

[sahureka2]

in the Iranian military parade last Friday, revelated a new version of the "Tiam" tank ( a hybrid : chassis M-47 + Type-59 and T-54/55 tower with 105mm gun) with refinement in the positioning of reactive bricks in the turret and in the front of the hull, also replacing the side guards at the tracks, now the material used for making them look different

 

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Iran Self-propelled Autoloader 122mm Howitzer Heidar-41 توپخانه حیدر ۴۱ هویتزر ۱۲۲م م اتوماتیک

 

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Iran 122mm smart MRLS equipped with UAV fire control system Heidar-44راکت انداز ۱۲۲م م حیدر۴

Iran Automatic optical sniper 23mm cannon Heidar-7 حیدر-۷ خودروی چرخدار ۸×۸ با توپ ۲۳ م م

 

[eagle2007]

ALCON,

IMHO, the ERA on that BTR-60 mod is a bit suspicious. As a rule, ERA is tricky to use on light armored vehicles (which is why you rarely see it today), the reason being the vehicle's main armor is too thin to survive the explosive reaction of the tiles themselves.

You will see a few examples over the years of attempts to put tank ERA tiles on smaller vehicles (including BMP-1s in Syria) but these are likely doomed to fail. ERA tiles taken from tanks are especially dangerous to use on lighter vehicles, as these designed to work with their thicker armor.

Now these BTR-60 tiles are definitely smaller and thinner than those seen on MBTs, which may allow them to use them without being damaged themselves. However, with reduced thickness, the effectiveness of the ERA will be degraded.

Also, the placement of the some of the tiles (especially around and BETWEEN the two windows up front) is a bit suspect as well.

The unmanned turret is a nice touch though, would like to see if it's stabilized (aka can fire on the move accurately)...

EDIT:
I need to do better proof-reading, meant that light vehicles often have too THIN of armor to support using ERA tiles..Good grief.

 

[AmirPatriot]

ALCON,

IMHO, the ERA on that BTR-60 mod is a bit suspicious. As a rule, ERA is tricky to use on light armored vehicles (which is why you rarely see it today), the reason being the vehicle's main armor is too thick to survive the explosive reaction of the tiles themselves.

You will see a few examples over the years of attempts to put tank ERA tiles on smaller vehicles (including BMP-1s in Syria) but these are likely doomed to fail. ERA tiles taken from tanks are especially dangerous to use on lighter vehicles, as these designed to work with their thicker armor.

Now these BTR-60 tiles are definitely smaller and thinner than those seen on MBTs, which may allow them to use them without being damaged themselves. However, with reduced thickness, the effectiveness of the ERA will be degraded.

Also, the placement of the some of the tiles (especially around and BETWEEN the two windows up front) is a bit suspect as well.

The unmanned turret is a nice touch though, would like to see if it's stabilized (aka can fire on the move accurately)...

Maybe they are trying to make it RPG proof, though Iran doesn't use APCs on the border areas where terrorist groups with those RPGs are, so it's quite a puzzling move.

 

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[eagle2007]

AmirPatriot,

I'm not sure ERA tiles of this size could even stop basic PG-7 rounds. Even if that were the point, slat or "cage" armor would be the simpler and smarter option.

Something else to consider is that using ERA on infantry carrying vehicles are tricky because if a formation of such BTRs were offloading troops and one was hit, the explosion from the ERA tiles would likely kill/wound some of your own infantry.

This is true of ERA-equipped tanks but they generally have fewer infantry moving around them on the battlefield (except in low intensity conflicts).

 

[yavar]

بازسازي و نگهداري تانك و زره پوش نيروي زميني ارتش ايران
Iran Army Ground Force maintenance industries Tank & Armor vehicles