Iran’s Defense Ministry Unveils New Rifles [PIC]

[Blackmoon]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Defense Ministry on Monday unveiled several state-of-the-art domestically made military products, including an advanced sniper rifle and a new type of Kalashnikov rifle, AK-133.
They were put on display in a ceremony held in Tehran on Monday with Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan in attendance.

The weapons, designed and manufactured by Iranian experts, included 12.7-mm Nasr sniper rifle, Kalashnikov AK-133, and portable multi-band software-defined radios (SDR) dubbed “Vasse’-1” and “Nasr-2”.
The AK-133 with a high degree of precision has been designed and manufactured by the Defense Ministry’s experts at the request of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Nasr sniper rifle has been ordered by the IRGC Ground Force.

Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient in the arms sphere.
Iran has frequently made it clear that its military might poses no threat to the regional countries, saying that the Islamic Republic’s defense doctrine is entirely based on deterrence.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/...defense-ministry-unveils-new-homegrown-rifles

 

[garshasp]

What happened to KH2002?

 

[Fafnir]

WTF!?
Homegrown?!

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Interesting, good achievement. I seriously hope that Pakistan and Iran can cooperate in terms of defense technology, that would be an amazing combination.

 

[PeeD]

So the Iranian polymer AK is called AK-133, the same name pattern as the BTR-82 for upgraded BTR-60 and T-74Z for upgraded T-55. Maybe most improvements of the AK-103 were implemented, but it lacks polymer magazine.

The Nasr is as someone else said a OSV-96 copy. Makes me wonder for who that magazine equipped version of the Sayyad is as the army has their own cal 50 weapons.

This all Russian style equipment of the IRGC will most likely serve together with their western M-16 and HS-50 based weapons.

 

[Abdul_Jalil]

Good news.

 

[sobhan]

its iranian underlicense product of russian ak103 that called ak133 in Iran

 

[PeeD]

I doubt that.
The AK 133 is still more close to the AKM. It's certainly not a copy of the AK-103, too many detail differences.

Maybe Russians agreed to don't get upset if Iran builds a AK based on the AK-103 if they agree to buy a Russian batch.

 

[Blackmoon]

The sniper has close resembles to Russian OSV-96 Sniper Rifle.