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Iran's Armed Forces Equipped with New Anti-Armor, Anti-Chopper Weapons

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi announced on Wednesday that the country has equipped its Armed Forces with highly advanced anti-armor and anti-chopper weapons.
 
 
 


Speaking to FNA, Vahidi announced that the new weapons were delivered to Iran's Armed Forces last week.

Asked to reveal the detailed specifications and features of the new anti-armored weapons, Vahidi stated, "These weapons identify the weak points of the enemy tanks and hit them from above."

He also announced that Iran is now producing laser-guided anti-chopper missiles, and added that the missiles can detect and hit targets with high precision.

Vahidi stated that mass production of these weapons has already started and that his ministry has supplied the first consignments of these weapons to the country's Armed Forces.

He further announced that Iran is producing different types of air-defense missiles which will be supplied to the country's military units in the near future.

The Iranian Army recently test-fired different types of newly-developed missiles and torpedoes and tested a large number of its home-made weapons, tools and equipments, including submarines, military ships, artillery, choppers, aircraft, UAVs and air defense and electronic systems, in a series of massive military drills.

Defense analysts and military observers say that Iran's wargames and its advancements in weapons production have proved as a deterrent factor, specially at a time of heightened threats by the US.

Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.

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  Iran's Armed Forces Equipped with New Anti-Armor, Anti-Chopper Weapons

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi announced on Wednesday that the country has equipped its Armed Forces with highly advanced anti-armor and anti-chopper weapons.   

Speaking to FNA, Vahidi announced that the new weapons were delivered to Iran's Armed Forces last week.

Asked to reveal the detailed specifications and features of the new anti-armored weapons, Vahidi stated, "These weapons identify the weak points of the enemy tanks and hit them from above."

He also announced that Iran is now producing laser-guided anti-chopper missiles, and added that the missiles can detect and hit targets with high precision.

Vahidi stated that mass production of these weapons has already started and that his ministry has supplied the first consignments of these weapons to the country's Armed Forces.

He further announced that Iran is producing different types of air-defense missiles which will be supplied to the country's military units in the near future.

The Iranian Army recently test-fired different types of newly-developed missiles and torpedoes and tested a large number of its home-made weapons, tools and equipments, including submarines, military ships, artillery, choppers, aircraft, UAVs and air defense and electronic systems, in a series of massive military drills.

Defense analysts and military observers say that Iran's wargames and its advancements in weapons production have proved as a deterrent factor, specially at a time of heightened threats by the US.

Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9002141672

The article seems to indicate that it has some degree of autonomy - fire and forget - but because the article is vague and a translation, I don't know how true that is.

It reminds me of the Toofan-5 that resembled the TOW-2A because it had a conventional HEAT warhead, it's possible they fitted it with top-attack HEAT warhead(s) like in the TOW-2B. That would be the easiest solution because it would just require a new warhead, relatively simple. It is mentioned alongside the Qaem, however this is probably just a case of Fars News recycling content from their other article on ATGMs, for instance, the last two paragraphs have been in literally every news article for the past 5 years.

no they say it is portable.

Who said the Sadid isn't portable? Only heavy anti-tank missiles like Hellfires would not be portable and if you compare an image of a OH-58 Kiowa (which is similar in size to the Shahed) carrying Hellfires and compare to the Shahed-285 mockup carrying the 8 Sadid missiles it is clear the Sadid is smaller than the Hellfire which means it's likely just as portable as the TOW.

That and my own research suggests the Sadid is quite similar in size and configurate to the SPIKE anti-tank missile family which come in vehicle, man-portable, and helicopter-mounted versions.

no they say it is portable.

Aryana, your post has no reference source/link...again....

Mamdali

The double posts have been merged. The title must represent the article discussed.

i changed title of article beacuse i think most important and newest part of article is the section that says missile hit target from above(now look at the replys in this thread ,you see memebers are talking about this feacture)
many times journalist havent enough military knowledge and doesnt use proper title, but there is more important subjects in article than their title. even sometimes original report in persian language uses proper title but translated version is not good.

Also, more and more members seem to post "news" in dedicated threads such as "land forces". The dedicated threads are there for discussion of known capabilities and not news.

Catsoo [/color]

but dear Catsoo, this is the same way that members and administrators do in other forums like Navy,Airforce,Airdefence,rocket and missiles . most threads of them starts by news. if we post news about Navy,Airforce,Airdefence,Landforce,Rocket and Missiles in Military discussions and news, dont you think orgnizing or finding them will be more difficult?

if you allow us, we post news about Equipments in their dedicated forums.

but about this certain thread , i agree with you, you're right, proper forum for this thread is Military Discussion and News. beacuse it doesnt talk about a certain weapon with a known name.

The categories are sometimes not available. Spike use ground forces and air force. The Spike would have a simple structure , an based on the TOW Missile. Shahed-285 just to be mentioned, because just there was visible.
Watch the video.
If I wrote the wrong place, I apologize. 

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