Well let me tell you something, because of lack of investment or better say interest we are probably years away from that.
bro army has the biggest helicopter fleet in the region let alone the IRGC. with current defence budget i dont think it's reasonable to pursue any thing bigger than R&D. the budget should go to the sectors that we are really vulnerable like AirForce.
One of them is this one , do you really think ground forces alone can stop enemy advancing armored forces ?
no i think with an air superior enemy investing in helicopter is the same as throwing money into trash bin. as i said we don't need any other helicopter in our fleet. we just have to upgrade them.
manpads are not lollipop that you can easily find in any store in the neighborhood. actually it's funny that you guys are criticizing the only sector of our military that is nothing wrong with that.
You can add short range a2a IR/heat seeker missiles without any problems and I think iran did this already but in practice you don't need a2a role for helicopters since helicopters are used in CAS and rescue missions
WTF you're talking about,they penetrate in command and control center and they gain full control over drones...they crash one in desert and they got all data flow..Considering what explanation I saw here from some members they don't have a clue what they talk about.This is far more worse than RQ-170 case,because Iran jam RQ-170 and land it but they succeed to decrypt data latter and they got only data stored on RQ-170..Now it is completly different case,because they didn't just jam only dron communication with satallite..instead they penetraded in to real time data flow and anyone who know anything about military knows that military use dedicated communication infrastucture,in case of US and NATO they have own dedicated satallite and ground network and completly automated system built on top of it...when it comes to US it is USCENTCOM and for NATO it is CENTCOM.There, all communication (classified and and even unclassified) data goes through US military communication infrastucture which,when it comes to security, implement something called COMSEC and it covers everything from transmission security,emission security,cryptographic implementation in every aspect and on every device and at the end physical security...Internet is nowhere even close to this,and there is no reason for it because they have own satallite and ground network..even if some devices are conected to internet these devices are not conected to system itself and even if someone want it is not posible because they have dedicated protocols and standards for all hardware.
