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Chieftain without a very good ERA armor package is like any T-55 on modern battlefield in terms of armor. Basically: If you hit it with 80% of the anti-tank weapons on today battlefield, its a kill.

Emad is already old by now. Ghadr can be converted, Shahab-3 not.

When I said some time ago here that Iran has developed a new launch method for its liquid fuel missiles: This is it.

Early 2010 level product. 8-10 years later...

Always remember that air force drone projects are behind defense ministry drones and even more behind IRGC drones: No early capture of enemy drones, no private companies that produce critical subsystems, no heavy use of universities. Don't expect anything even at S-129 level.

These are conscript army soldiers, not much can be expected. They are defensive troops that hold areas. Then there are Artesh units with higher percentage of professional soldiers which can also do limited offensive operations. And then there are IRGC GF and Artesh units that are there to do...

Seems so.

Seems like that the Zoljanah actually lost to this smaller one with a S-300V like radar. I guess they thought that Zoljanah 10x10 would be needed to carry missile and radar but later found out that it was possible to do it with the 8x8. Not really "lost" as there were no different companies...

Iran is intentionally making a secret of this Bavar-373 test, psyops, disinformation. So nothing really clear can be said here. Maybe next year we see a standard full size Bavar-373 battery in action, maybe it is too hot for now to show it's details to enemy Intel.

Well should be a Sayyad-4, just blurred lines.

"Bavar" was mentioned in the promo, so we can expect to see it operational. I only wonder if IRGC feels ready to show the Alam ol Hoda after all these years to the public. Its such an important system to break enemy airpower kill chain.

Thanks, appreciated, I like your points too. I'm a friend of fast and high when it comes to airpower. But in total such turbojets have high part count and fuel penalty. In the high and fast game, rocket motors or ramjets, brought to altitude by a turbofan, could be options in the next decades...

N. Koreans have a very disciplined mindset and work mentality. They were also much ahead of Iran in defense up until the mid-90's. They started in the 60's, Iran in the 90's. Plus they have a war economy as their war practically never ended. They might not be most innovative but their Juche...

Come on. Seems like you can't digest N. Koreans to develop systems on their own and as a Chinese you look at Russia and thinks they secretly support NK very much. No. That NK SAM is not a S-400 or a copy of it, its an indigenous project based on the S-300. Same thing with their Iskander-like...

Thats the issue: These old school turbojets (J79 being the worst of them) have too many parts, too many compressor stages and too low inlet temperature. The Jahesh engine is a low-part engine and future Iranian engines should go in that direction to save costs. RD-33 is so attractive because...

You are off here my friend. Russia is not desperate at all. Iran and NK got critical systems from Russia in the 90's but not anymore. Proof for it? PK-4 is so advanced that its near Bulava technology level. If you think Russia would sell Bulava technology... NK Iskander is very different to...

You think Iran ever disclosed Shahrud? It is still a secret facility far away in the desert but too large to remain undetected. OSINT made it public to the world and we would expect OSINT to search NK for a similar facility. To make it simple: I dont see the R&D footprint necessary to develop...

I'm the last person to underestimate North Koreans. You showed it yourself: You have found one NK facility under construction in 2018 that could be for solid fuel missile and motor casting. No prolonged test campaign or years old finished facilities of large scale. I'm not ranting here, if...

@Galactic Penguin SST Which solid fuel test and development "city" like Shahroud does North Korea have? North Korea is liquid orientated and unfortunately you Chinese wont help them on solids. If they have now a solid fuel PK-4 ICBM, then the most likely helper is Iran. Irans solid fuel...

@agarrao a las kalandrakas Navigator basically said it all. The step from PM to PM-2 was huge. The best Armenia got is P afaik, but that system was not operating.