Yes everyone knows iran has a helicopters in quantity, doesn’t mean quality, chinooks are 50 years old, even with maintenance and upgrades way past their service life, same goes with most of their helicopters. Iran is still a decade or longer producing attack helicopters and transport helicopters and not talking about one off projects you never hear about again, I like the ka 52 personally but here’s the question Russia buying weapons from Iran, but why isn’t Russia selling or why isn’t Iran buying. It really is confusing Russia is buying weapons from Iran, but Russia is either not selling or Iran isn’t buying for whatever reason.
Iran couldo also take a look at China Z-10 for ground forces CAS or Z-19 attack helicopters, Z-19 could replace the bell helicopter in the landing deck for IRGC Navy, Ka-52 would suit very well with the ground forces as a scout and attack helicopters or Mi28NE, in a scenario of war against Ailyev it would be needed here
Shahed 285 was just another project that never went anywhere as far as I can tell, they’ve done a great job of upgrading the cobras but again 50 plus weapons systems no matter the upgrades, I honestly like the Chinese made weapons but the Chinese seem to put a lot of strings attached to their systems, the Chinese don’t care about money they care what benefits them in the long run.
But the question is whether China will sell to Iran - i worry China won't. The main motivation i feel for China not selling some weapons to Iran, or Russia, is preservation of its important economic ties - China is a HUge country with a huge economy and that comes with huge obligations, even to countries and peoples China doesnt like or like to work with. China seems to transfer tech to Iran i think, physical inventory comes with high risk (low or no privacy from prying eyes of foreign intelligence agencies) for China probably, so probably better to export tech staff, technology, and machinery to Iran, and work with or allow Iranians to produce the required military equipment.
Not much different at all. The T90 is just another designation of the T72 because of what happened during the Gulf War 1. They still retain the same auto loader method just armored around the carousel while just more ammo added in the turret rear bustle in the T90M variant. Whether its still better or not is the question. I mean its a good design if they just had autoloader from the rear separate compartment like you see in the Leclerc or K2 Panther tanks. The T-95 Black Eagle looked promising.
View attachment 892349Not much different at all. The T90 is just another designation of the T72 because of what happened during the Gulf War 1. They still retain the same auto loader method just armored around the carousel while just more ammo added in the turret rear bustle in the T90M variant. Whether its still better or not is the question. I mean its a good design if they just had autoloader from the rear separate compartment like you see in the Leclerc or K2 Panther tanks. The T-95 Black Eagle looked promising.
T90 T90A T90M
I wouldn't say the tanks are obsolete even with ATGMS whether man portable or on vehicles. You don't send the vehicles like these to face the brunt of direct assault on positions you want to take. Hence you see Russians and Ukrainians trying to get more tanks into the war theater. Otherwise it be trainloads of lighter vehicles with ATGMs we be seeing only.
Iran does not need to look at a country’s weapons systems that hasn’t been at war for …huh.
Yeah my only point is the cost of these systems have become out of reach by most countries standards 4 to 10 million dollars isn’t chump change even for developed countries, so having a vehicle that can travel faster with the same lethal firepower, if you have a system that can target that tank first send off 8 rounds at it simultaneously, most countries these days are purchasing mraps that are heavily armored they can’t afford the 5 to 10 million dollar price tag add munitions cost of maintenance not realistic for third world nations.
'How many tanks'? Is this 1942? Wrong question.
