Tango01  | 18 Nov 2016 11:28 a.m. PST |
"Iran's Defense Ministry is going to unveil an home-made helicopter Saba-248 and an advanced main battle tank Karrar in the near future, Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said Wednesday, November 16, 2016 The Iranian Defense Ministry has plans to unveil ‘Saba-248' helicopter and ‘Karrar' advanced homegrown tank, General Dehqan told reporters on Wednesday, during a visit to the 8th International Iran Airshow, on the Persian Gulf island of Kish.
According to the minister, the products have been fully designed and manufactured by the local military experts, in cooperation with the Iranian private sector's knowledge-based enterprises…"
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 18 Nov 2016 11:38 a.m. PST |
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| thorr666 | 18 Nov 2016 11:38 a.m. PST |
$5 USD says it's a cardboard shell on a pickup ;D |
| Mako11 | 18 Nov 2016 12:37 p.m. PST |
Nah, they probably splurged and used thin plywood, since the cardboard might more easily blow off the ancient hull they're using for their "new" design, if it's not just a photoshopped, plastic toy model, like more than half of their air force. |
| Waco Joe | 18 Nov 2016 12:40 p.m. PST |
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| hocklermp5 | 18 Nov 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
The tank pic is rather obviously photoshopped. The raptor with RPG riding a shark, on the other hand, I expect will give the Iranians ideas and we will soon see a photo of swarms of them. |
| cloudcaptain | 18 Nov 2016 2:17 p.m. PST |
It's a car…I mean Karrar! |
| zoneofcontrol | 18 Nov 2016 2:30 p.m. PST |
If the tank is called Karrar, would the gun be called Karbine?!? |
| JMcCarroll | 18 Nov 2016 3:41 p.m. PST |
The new tank is protected by 3rd generation facial hair that is held together by top secret secretions. Rumored to be milk and honey! |
| Bangorstu | 19 Nov 2016 3:41 a.m. PST |
And once again I recall that in the 1940s we all thought that yellow people couldn't build aircraft… |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 19 Nov 2016 4:46 a.m. PST |
According to the minister, the products have been fully designed and manufactured by the local military experts, in cooperation with the Iranian private sector's knowledge-based enterprises…" And these enterprises would be those owned by the 'guardians of their fat investment portfolioes', sorry, 'revolution'? I'd guess it will be a generation 2.5 MBT and will bear a suspicious resemblance to 2nd gen machines in their inventory! |
| williamb | 19 Nov 2016 5:27 a.m. PST |
might be an upgraded t72
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 Legion 4 | 19 Nov 2016 9:15 a.m. PST |
And once again I recall that in the 1940s we all thought that yellow people couldn't build aircraft…
It's not so much if the Iranians can build workable/useful equipment. But how effectively they can use them … |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 20 Nov 2016 7:34 a.m. PST |
They started the Iran-Iraq War with massed infantry attacks,and ended it with some pretty sophisticated Special Ops,so. . . |
| Legion 4 | 20 Nov 2016 8:11 a.m. PST |
Well I may not go that far saying "sophisticated". But it any militaries' units are going to effective, it's their SF types. But not always, especially in Africa.
However, most of the combat actions in that conflict were more reminiscent of something like WWI with WWII tech, IMO. Along with a tactic that seems to be a predilection of some of those moslem countries and groups. Is suicide attacks … |
| Mako11 | 20 Nov 2016 10:46 p.m. PST |
Actually, I question their ability to build them too. |
| gamershs | 20 Nov 2016 10:57 p.m. PST |
When you have 150 billion to spend you can farm out the design and parts to other nations and assemble them in Iran and call it home grown. |
| Rod I Robertson | 21 Nov 2016 5:33 a.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 21 Nov 2016 6:49 a.m. PST |
When you have 150 billion to spend Gee … wonder where they got all that  ? just plain real? Hellfire, TOW, GAU-8, JDAMs, etc., can take care of that if need be … |
| Deadles | 23 Nov 2016 2:52 p.m. PST |
More propaganda for domestic consumption. I don't doubt Iran can produce much of its military equipment requirements and they've developed a great maintenance and overhaul system given their limitations. They could actually do a lot more if they spent some actual money on all this. The truth is they don't. Iranian defence spending is allocated mainly to WMDs and every thing else is done on a shoe string budget. After WMDs are a far better deterrent against well equipped Gulf states and US than conventional weapons.
The Iranian model is actually quite effective – WMDs for deterrence and special/covert forces/irregular warfare for offensive action.
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