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. Read full news at this link
http://www.armyrecognition.com/november_2016_glob…/index.php
Only thanks to armor found in iraq and southern lebanon , Thank you israel
Iranian are interesting people.
They pick turret of T72 and fit it on M60 and name it some XYZ new tank.
Then they pick M60 turret and put in on T72 chassis and name it some ABC new tank.
Same sort of relation is shared by T55 and M48.
They never reveal data about technical capability, production and deployment status.
Same thing happened with Sabalan Tank, Zulfiqar3 Tank, Tian tank and now we have Karrar tank which look like Iranian clone of T72 tank.
It's not only iranians , the israeli merkava too is a reversed engineered tank , the merkava mark 1 infact was designed to be a neither western nor eastern tank ; of course we are not as fanatic as them in our tank designs and we don't blush if they found out our tanks look like a t-55 , patton tank hybrid
the soviets too started their nuclear program and long range bombers with spying and reverse engineering , there is no difference between iran and soviet union.
China is only country which when makes copy makes a better one than the original
indeed , china and israel , depending on what you would call a copy
Not a copy !
It's a heavily upgraded T-72 ...
looks more like a t-72 turret mounted on a merkava mark 4
Its still a t72 and even an upgraded one isnt going to cut it compared to the gulfies leclercs,leopards and abrams.To face these iran needs the most modern main battle tanks it can get its hands on,not just a t72 hull with a t90sm look a like turret fitted.
well we have to start somewhere , we can export these to the khamaz and khizballa and see how they fait against the israeli merkava
those tanks you mentioned in a case any persian gulf war can easily fall into the hands of shia fighters to the country they belong or they will be wiped out in the first wave of missile barrage
haha , you mean sunni fighters , shia's are on iran's side
Any information on the engine?
@SOHEIL @Arminkh @Zarvan
the engine is imported from russia
Can u handle arabian gulf (gcc) air force
I don't think you can do any thing to them
FIGHTER JET
IRAN : 201
GCC : 790
Source:
https://defence.pk/threads/gcc-vs-iran.459393/#ixzz4QPdBCoQ2
iran : 10000+ irbm missiles
arabia : a couple of scuds at best
Come on, you guys aren't serious? The GCC have the:
MIM-104 Patriot
THAAD
NASAMS
Aster
Aspide
Crotale
MICA
RIM-116
MEADS
And have been offered the S-300/400 on several occasions.
still not enough to stop a barrage of iranian shahab , sejjil , and or emad , the lattest being designed to counter manuever ABM systems.
Those are the best air defence/anti-missile systems on EARTH!
(PAC-3 of the MIM-104 Patriot is one of the latest variants for example)
The israeli iron dome was said to be the best in the world too , but it couldn't stop hamas' fertilizer rockets from landing on Ben Gurien airport in tel aviv
These are the most advanced and latest air defence/anti missile systems built by the west and you're telling me their objectives are to intercept Soviet era Scud Missiles?
Iran does have S-300 and Buk missile systems, though the GCC pretty much have every advanced air defence system built by the US and Western Europe.
Iran also has the Tor system
cant saudis and other GCC members use highways and moterways for landing and fueling to avoid Iranian ballistic missile attacks on air bases?
There were highways in iraq too , but they turned to be "death highways"
agree here but Iranian also cliam they have thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles which can overwhelm air defences of any regional country , in case if needed can GCC turn their highways and motarways into full fledge bases? I think if not then they should look into this option..
iran will not target what they have their ABM's around instead iran will target their refinaries in east arabia which is shia , jerusalem , tel aviv and so forth ..
THE BUZZ
Iran's 'New' Karrar Tank: "One of the Most Advanced Tanks in the World"
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...k-one-the-most-advanced-tanks-the-world-17468