I am sure my comment is not absurd at all, it is better for Iran to rely on it technology more than to buy. The neocon hawks and zionist regimes would have destroyed Iran by now had it not been their self reliance.
You completely missed my point. Don’t call Russian or Soviet tech “compromised” when Chinese military is built entirely on Russian/Soviet technology. That is what is absurd.
Bavar 373 is a completely domestic platform with no direct similarity to any western or eastern platform. Now if Iran had literally copied a S-300 system and slapped a new name on it like Bavar-300 then it would be China.
Also I agree an unknown tech (like Bavar) has its advantages as the enemy does not directly known all capabilities (but likely has intelligence on it). However, Bavar is only going to be as good as its EW/ECW rating. If it is not better than export S-300 version than West EW/ECW methods will work on it.
So again don’t think because you develop. A weapons system in Iranian or Chinese domestic code it is suddenly impenetrable to EW/ECW. US is #1 in military power in cyber warfare, it’s best to not underestimate your enemy.
There is a fallacy on this board of getting to comfortable against your enemies capabilities.
Iran is far away from being able to “relax” as the murder of General Solemani and attempted murder of Quds Force General of Yemen operations demonstrated. Iran has been poking the US thinking that It would never reset the rules of warfare and it got a shocking wake up call.
Some will blame this on Trump, but’s let be real. The deep state apparatus of biggest empire to exist on this planet does not make its security decisions based on one man. Regardless of what the MSM want people to believe.
So yes domestic development is great way forward, but advanced weapons purchases and ToT is needed to boost domestic development. If China didn’t have ToT of Soviet Union tech in 70’s and 80’s or reverse engineer the latest in Russian tech then It wouldn’t be the military power it is today.
Case in point, Iran’s Air Force is still stuck in 1970’s. With no technological purchases/reverse engineering or ToT transfer it has not been able to advance the Air Force one iota.