Iran defense doctrine owes to Iran the most , its true that regular army inherited many of its war doctrine from USA universities , but overall Iran defense doctrine is asymmetrical warfare and that's owed to people like Shahid Chamran not any western or eastern country.
I was talking defence industries rather than doctrine. Infrastructure-wise as well as in terms of scientific and technical expertise, Iran's defence industries owe hardly anything to the pre-Revolution period.
When it comes to weaponry sampled for reverse-engineering, some items transferred by the west before 1979 saw prominent domestic upgrades and production (like the TOW missiles), but they were sold to Iran at a time when she had no serious reverse-engineering competence. Otherwise NATO regimes would never have equipped Iran with said armaments.
The Russian Federation however made some weapons systems available to Iran all the while of being aware that they'll get disassembled, studied in minute detail and that they'll end up boosting Iran's domestic defence industries. Because meanwhile Iran had acquired solid reverse-engineering and indigenous R&D and manufacturing skills.
This shows that in the global south the US regime is looking to subdue its clients, whereas Russia is ready to establish ties on equal footing. Of course Moscow may hold back on making attractive offers but at least it will not condition bilateral relations upon vassalage, unike the zio-American empire.
Now when it comes to doctrine, indeed the Islamic Republic's conception is opposite to US thinking in practically every aspect (Iranian focus on asymmetry over hubris-laden, self-defeating race for so-called "full spectrum dominance"; reliance upon missiles, UCAV's, light submarines and so on over an expensive air force, bulky destroyers etc).
just with the money we spend on maintain and overhauling them , God know how many fateh we could build or we could develop of fuel cell propulsion system for submarines to truly make them black hole .
When the Kilos were purchased Iranian naval industries hadn't matured enough to give birth to something like the Fateh or even Ghadir. Thus the Kilos offered kind of a stop gap solution in the underwater department.
not really , our radars on our shortrange air defense are different and a hack we made for Tor-M1 are also look different from the Russian one if you look closer
I'm referring to a radar-like square component (don't know what it exactly is) present on Iranian Tor-M1's but similar if not identical in looks to a certain part of the Tor-M2.
m-777 can be a game changer(to some extent as its towed not self propelled) but not the monkey version stripped down that Ukraine got.
I've no doubt that Russia would overcome the standard version of these howitzers as well. Ukraine would need far more than that to be able to turn the tide.
west don't care about Ukraine , they don't even consider them as European , they just get a golden opportunity to weaken Russia war machine ,
Western regimes don't care about any of their so-called "allies", in fact vassals. And didn't care about Iran prior to the Revolution either (just saw Iran as one of many tools in their deterrence strategy against the USSR and as an enforcer of zio-American interests in the Persian Gulf).
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