Top 15 Defence budgets 2013 ( Including Iran)

[Serpentine]

Like Samand ?

That's not a good example. I totally put a clear line between producing cars and military equipment. You should start from somewhere and in military industry, it's always better to produce your own arms, while in auto industry, it's not like that.

 

[Surenas]

Does anyone know the percentage of Iran's regular army budget, and IRGC? If I'm right, the budget of some parts of the IRGC, like the Qods force, are not made public.

 

[Khan_patriot]

660 billion dollars, I wonder what in the Almighty's name does the US do with it.....

 

[Genesis]

Of course, Iran still can't buy arms from foreign countries, so it's an opportunity to boost domestic production much further.

look it us, US won't sell to us, we can't make advanced weapons, fast forward two decades, we no longer need to buy other's weapons, and with in another decade, we will be able to produce almost all of the world's most advanced weapon systems.

Am I saying Iran could do the same? Not impossible, early stages are always tough cause the industry can barely produce crap, but it'll get much better as time goe son.

 

[MTN1917]

if only they removed mandatory military service, this huge useless overhead on iran's economy the problem would be solved.
its not economically efficient, u have to take into account the number of meals that has to be prepared for 1 million something conscript annually, cost of ammunitions that is being used, etc etc... if there was proper management even if we had to maintain a smaller but more capable force the problem would be solved without increase in budget.

If they removed the mandatory service and began recruiting soldiers Iran is going to have a much worse economic condition, first we are not a technology superior military power so we have to rely on superior numbers and secondly having contract soldiers will increase our military budget dramatically and we don't have a million conscripts annually and even if we have a professional army the numbers of ammunition used will have to increase(because of higher level of training)
Majlis and MODAL have done research on this subject and they got the same result.

Does anyone know the percentage of Iran's regular army budget, and IRGC? If I'm right, the budget of some parts of the IRGC, like the Qods force, are not made public.

Army joint chief of staff: 51,085,584----->1964 million USD
IRGC joint chief of stadd: 44,566,686----->1714 million USD
IRGC protection force(ansar ol mahdi corp): 199,934----->7 million USD
IRGC Khatam ol anbia construction base: 50,000,000----->1923 million USD

See my earlier post and below.
http://admin.khabaronline.ir/system/files/2013_12_8_12_0_7.pdf

 

[The SiLent crY]

I think Iran needs to work on it's domestic science and technology plus investing on this field . Buying expensive weapons or relying on foreigners can't solve our needs in long term .

 

[Abii]

I think Iran needs to work on it's domestic science and technology plus investing on this field . Buying expensive weapons or relying on foreigners can't solve our needs in long term .

Easier said than done.

Every nation, apart from 1-2 exceptions, that has excelled in such fields has an open democratic system with a liberal free capitalist economy. I was watching a debate between Iran Khodro executives and a group of anti-tariff people on Iranian TV. The IKCO exec. said that b/c Iran doesn't have large corporations that spend a lot on R&D, IKCO itself can never improve as a company b/c all the parts that they source come from thousands of small little companies that only have the power to produce the same thing over and over an over. On the flip side, the Ford Motor Company in the US has the backing of many giant companies that are independent of Ford and are always innovating. Ford can go to them and give them a problem, they can solve it and both side can benefit.

The US military works the same way to a large extent. There are thousands of large companies that are independent of the US military are constantly trying to innovate with the motivation that they can sell their products and patents to the US military in the future.

In Iran, everything is from top down. Only China has managed to make this work, somewhat. Every other successful nation on the planet runs on a free market capitalist system with an open economy and a democratic political system. In such an environment, the govt is on the back seat and only regulates here and there. In Iran, if the govt doesn't do it, nobody else can. Unless we have 10% GDP growths every year for the next 30 years like China, then they obviously can't handle even 10% of the country's needs.

 

[AUz]

Saudi Arabia is about to cross Russia in defense spending

I don't know what Kingdom does will all this money...