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Fair point. From the information that is rumored in credible circles, this is a rather recent capability the U.S has gained. Possibly satellite based and hence a whole constellation would be needed to reliably track mobile submarines, while a single one could scan static reactors over months...

I don't know about the quality of Iran's AKM clones. I also don't know how much Iranian conscript Army soldiers are trained how the zero it and take care of it. So there may either be discipline issues or manufacturing quality issues, but none of them is the fault of the AKM design.

By public information it might seem impractical. U.S "back world" capabilities are not to be underestimated, Plutonium reactor is good if you want to break out fast and officially become a nuclear power (poor mans nuclear path). Advanced centrifuges however offer you elegant latent capability...

Yes it could produce plutonium for bombs. However, the moment the reactor runs up, the U.S will know and track. The U.S fear was primarily Iran mastering centrifuges. Any centrifuge that is capable to enrich uranium, can enrich it to bomb level. Its only a question of time. P-1 is a much...

Just two facts: You cant hide plutonium production due to neutrinos produced, but you can hide uranium production. You can also enrich HEU with IR-1, IR-2m which is different to the P-2, just enrichs faster and cheaper.

Also a stamped upper receiver production can be automated, but why if you have workforce that does it cheaper. Stamped upper receiver are not good for a modern rifle: The picatinny rail for accessories basically needs an milled design. AKM and AK-103 are still very good rifles for the bulk of...

Iran has it all; self produced CNC machines, metal 3D printers. Thats not what I'm talking about. Its economic mass production. Fewer production steps, shorter production time, less tool wear. AKM and AK-103 cost around 200$ in mass production due to their designs, AR-15 at least 600$ Iran...

Foremost lower recoil of 7.62 MASAF over G-3, then likely lower weight and potentially better reliability, accessories and accuracy. Key issue, you need more experience and training to handle the G-3 well.

I'm not doubting Irans access to CNC machines. The upper receiver design of the AR-15 is too complex. You can't create a stamped steel design (G-3, AKM, AK-103) for it, nor a non-complex fast to manufacture milled design (AR-18, Zolfaghar). But Iran has been manufacturing AR-15 since the...

I hope not.

The biggest problem with the AR-15 design, on which this rifle is based, it that you need a CNC milling machine for manufacture. For the masses of the Army this gets quite expensive. So I doubt that they will replace the G-3 with it, which is a mass-producable stamped steel design. Raefipours...

That story is a good way to tell Iranians that north Europeans are Aryans and Iranians diluted and mixed Aryans who should accept British overlords isn't it? No. North Europeans are ethnically of the Caucasian group, but very different to Iranians. Blondism and blue/green eyes are also in the...

Ok, lets get the facts straight here: Iranians in current Iran have around 10% foreign (Arabic, Turkic) genes combined. Non-urban ones down to 5%. In all ways, one of the purest and genetically unique populations in the world, despite the conquests. Parsis on the other hand needed to marry...

Sarir and Soroush series are certainly human-rated, so almost certainly no solid fuel boosters. The space shuttle was basically forced to use solid fuel booster because they had nothing else. But the plan was to have a fully liquid fuel space shuttle, like the Soviet Buran

U.S approved this release to show their public that a war with Iran would be devastating and JCPOA is the solution.

Fog of war, you can't view and strike that deep into a country if its a peer-level opponent, but you can develop systems like S-500. Point is: Its next to impossible to target mobile TELs at 2000km or even 500km at the onset of a high tech conflict. You are the tacair power advocate in the...

How to achieve sufficient gain with such a small aperture in such a relative low wavelength and still transmit sufficient power density through the atmosphere for more than 250km ??? I'm with you on the applications of Starlink for unmanned systems but it is not suited for DEW

You are straw-manning me a little. I didn't say the U.S should abandon their airforce in favor for BMs, point is: They have no real BMs or hypersonic missiles at all, at this moment, and working to get them. The U.S has realized that ranges of typical tacair like F/A-18 or even F-35 are not...

The weld-lines show that its a steel design, as well its low payload.

Its clearly not a carbon fiber design yet.