As of now i predict that Iran will not communicate on when purchases are expected to be delivered and just let it until someone discovers it or a little announcement is made and this is the perfect thing as it will not draw public attention
The comparison with M-10 unveiling is different as M-10 is an Iran-made product, this is to show that Iran is capable of building drones and more directed at its enemies, just like missiles and AD.
Mi-26 is an heavy lifting helicopter, it is not meant to go on the battlefield where manpads are, Mi-26 is simply the Chinook counterpart, which are aging in Iran as no service and parts are provided by the US obviously, latest versions of Mi-26 are modernized
https://roe.ru/eng/catalog/aerospace-systems/helicopters/mi-26t2/ Mi-26T2, this is like saying Chinook are vietnam war cows, Chinook has been constantly upgraded to modern standards
No Mi-26 was shot down in Ukraine for a simple reason, Mi-26 is a transport and heavy lifting helicopter. It would help Iran not only in the military field but in the civilian field, in case of earthquake or natural disaster, rescue victims and lift objects, so i don't know what manpads men have to do with a transport/heavylift helicopter
Is Iran going to keep the chinooks forever and risk crashes? Does Iran have an heavylift helicopter project?
Acquisition such as Mi-26 or Ka-52 provides Iran more flexibility on the ground and doing "defense attack" doctrine, Pantsir system proven to be effective in Ukraine and Syria:
https://www.armyrecognition.com/def...missile_destroys_4_french_scalp_missiles.html
Moscow has received a large amount of requests for the delivery of Pantsyr surface-to-air missile/gun systems and S-400 anti-aircraft missile complexes, according to the director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation.
airrecognition.com
The systems have been used for protection from missiles, planes and reconnaissance and attack drones
tass.com
And countless drones shot down in Syria
Cherrypicking random Pantsir destroyed to label it as useless will not change anything, Pantsir brutalized Turkish, Israeli drones in Syria and Ukraine
Why are there orders if the system is complete trash?
And what some people doesn't understand, it is about shuffling multiple systems on different layers of the AD and not only one or two, China for example has S-400 along with its own systems, this is not about destroying projects and being 95% dependent on Russia, iran is not Algeria for example. Yak-130 for training before Su-35 arrives and form pilots, Yasin is a different project, Kowsar is a different project that have nothing to do with Yak-130 and is based on F-5 with Iranian electronics etc, those Yak are here to train pilots to operate Russian fighters. People are directly going nonsense by saying because Iran purchased Yak-130, then Yasin and Kowar is gone.
The naggers will keep being exposed