Iran Military Developments

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Iran's electronic warfare achievements significant

Unveiling 16 electronic defense achievements in Shiraz Electronics Industries on Monday, Iran’s defense minister said Iran has achieved outstanding capability to confront enemy’s electronic warfare.
Addressing the unveiling ceremony of 16 new achievements of Iran's Defense Industries in the Southern city of Shiraz on Monday, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan emphasized Iran's defense capabilities; “With the efforts of experts in Shiraz Electronics Industries, the required equipment for various sectors of armed forces are being produced,” he said, aaserting that the most important achievement is the manufacture of different radars which can identify and track threats and defend the country.

“So far, mass production of different radar systems that can cover a range of objects in distances up to 500 kilometers has been accomplished in Shiraz Electronics Industries,” he noted.

General Dehghan deemed the indigenization of the navigation systems of warplanes as another achievement of Shiraz Electronics Industries; “we have made outstanding advancement in area of software production for confronting enemy’s electronic warfare,” he asserted.

“Jamming, COMINT (Communications Intelligence) and ELINT (Electronic signals intelligence) systems are capable of identifying enemy position in the battleground and Iran's armed forces will be able to take necessary actions towards enemies in a matter of seconds,” added General Dehghan.

Several important defense products were unveiled during the ceremony including a Radar system with the capability of tracking different semi-heavy and heavy weapons as well as taking action during electronic warfare, Ghamar 3-D search and control radar system with the capability of tracking more than 100 targets, including fighter jets and drones, up to a distance of 450 kilometers at different altitudes and transferring the relevant data to the air defense network as well as Absar video-imaging system which can be mounted on fighter jets and drones.

Dehghan also inaugurated the production line of air and airport navigation systems including MLAT (Multilateration), ELINT as well as COMINT systems.

Pic from the new "Ghamar"radar

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Iran’s Advisory Help for Yemen to Continue: IRGC Chief

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari affirmed that Iran will keep providing Yemen’s Ansarullah movement with whatever advisory assistance it may need in the face of Saudi-led invasion.
In an address to the University of Tehran’s students on Monday, the top general said Iran has offered the necessary help for Yemen so far, and will continue to “do whatever it can in the advisory dimension”, because “the Ansarullah (movement) has gained a firm position in Yemen.”

His comments came against the backdrop of more than seven months of airstrikes against Yemen by a Saudi-led military coalition. Saudis and their Arab allies have been targeting the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Elsewhere in his comments, Major General Jafari reiterated Iran’s commitment to offering advisory assistance to the Syrian government and nation.

The general said Iran will keep backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has stood against Israel.

Lauding the Syrian president’s significant role in the axis of anti-Israeli resistance, the IRGC commander said Iran will agree to Assad's stepping down "only if the Syrian people chose it in elections.”

In comments earlier on Sunday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei also described the only way out of crisis in Syria as elections.

“The solution to the Syria issue is elections and to that effect, war and unrest should first end with a halt to military and financial aid to the dissidents, so that the Syrian people would elect anyone they want in a safe and calm atmosphere,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

Tasnim News Agency - Iran’s Advisory Help for Yemen to Continue: IRGC Chief

 

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Iran Closing Technology Gap With Israel, Military Intelligence Chief Warns


Haaretz Israeli News Source
The Military Intelligence chief said Israel and Iran are engaged in a technology war in which the Islamic Republic is rapidly narrowing the quality gap.

Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi, speaking at a closed lecture Thursday, added that if the anxiety generated by the videos of Palestinians stabbing Israelis on social media had existed in 1948, Israel would not have won the War of Independence.
He also revealed that recently, MI abandoned an operation at the last minute because of a letter the corps received from a low-ranking officer in its 8200 signals intelligence unit.
Halevi was speaking to a few dozen donors and faculty members of the College of Management at the Rothchild Bank in Tel Aviv. It was an uncharacteristic appearance for Halevi, who in the year since he succeeded Aviv Kochavi has maintained a low profile.
The general did not give a detailed intelligence assessment but delivered remarks that had never been made in public by a top officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
“If you ask me whether we’ll have a war with Iran over the next 10 years, I’ll give you a surprising answer: We are already at war with Iran,” Halevi said. “We’re having a technological war with Iran. Our engineers are fighting Iranian engineers, today, and it’s becoming increasingly significant.”

The war, he said, was over intelligence, weapons and military capabilities, and Halevi was pessimistic. “Today we have the advantage. Iran is closing in on it. Since the 1979 revolution, the number of universities and university students in Iran has increased twentyfold, compared with three and a half times for Israel,” Halevi said, adding that enrollment in science, technology, engineering and math in Iran was skyrocketing.
Halevi touched on the current wave of terror attacks and the difference between the country’s past wars, conducted mainly in border areas, and today’s wars, in which the home front suffers many casualties.
“The next war will be much worse for the home front,” Halevi said. “In the Yom Kippur War there was one home-front casualty; a FROG missile struck the pilots’ quarters of the Ramat David air base. It was the only casualty on the home front. All the rest were military.”
He said a main issue in today’s wars was awareness. “It’s not about how many you killed and how many the other side killed, and it’s not about how far you got and where you planted your flag. It’s about the story that the war tells,” he said.
“All of us, including me and each of you, have for the past month been brainwashing ourselves when we watch those stabbing videos over and over, creating a level of anxiety that, had everyone in the War of Independence been watching the videos of Latrun, San Simon or Nitzanim, it’s not sure we would have been able to keep going.”
Halevi said it was much harder for MI to develop and retain intelligence sources today than a decade or two ago due to rapid technological change. “The same kilogram of intelligence costs much more than it did 10 years ago. Not only does it cost more, its expiration date is significantly sooner,” he said.
“Twenty years ago you had an intelligence accomplishment and you were set for the next five to seven years. Today you might have worked really hard, risking people’s lives, carrying out all sorts of maneuvers. You got something, but with the speed at which our world operates and the speed at which technology changes,” the expiry time declines.
To illustrate this point, the MI chief described efforts to collect intelligence about the Islamic State. He encouraged his audience to not be fooled by the dreadlocks and traditional robes of ISIS operatives. “They use the most cutting-edge technology,” he said. “It’s not carrier pigeons, it’s the most advanced communication systems, with the best encryption on top of that. It changes every couple of days.”
He said MI’s organizational culture was such that even soldiers and junior officers could have great influence. “We faced a dilemma over whether to carry out a particular operation in a particular place. It was about to go up to the chief of staff for a decision, and we needed to decide whether to do it or not,” he said.
“An officer enters my office and says, ‘Listen, I want you to read this, it’s a letter from a first lieutenant, a network intelligence officer at a Unit 8200 base.’ He’s a first lieutenant. He writes a letter to the Unit 8200 commander and to the head of MI: ‘Listen, I think you’re making a mistake,’” Halevi said.
“It's just five minutes before decision time. I might not have read the letter if it arrived one minute later, before the talk with the chief of staff. That’s the ability of people to make an impact at the most critical second of decision-making.”
Halevi defended the standing army against recent criticism about the size of the defense budget. “There’s a bit of an atmosphere in the country today — maybe you don’t think so — but the officers feel that’s it not so positive toward the army,” he said.
“I think this is dangerous. I think it comes a bit from the place of the budget. Officers tell me strangers sometimes stop them on the street saying we’re the problem of the Israeli economy. I’d be cautious. It’s better that the best people are involved — in security in general and intelligence in particular.”
Halevi said he even feared the elimination of mandatory military service in Israel. “The quiet depends on our being strong, and my fear is that we will end the model of a people’s army, and then the IDF won’t accept all of Israeli youth into its ranks and won’t take advantage of the best people,” he said.
“If we change the model of the people’s army, then in the first two or three years inertia will keep us going, but after that the entire defense establishment will be damaged to the point of damage to the state’s security.”

Iran Closing Technology Gap With Israel, Military Intelligence Chief Warns - Israel News - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source

 

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is that irans map,
is that radar coverage area is half of iran and half of sea,
is this propaganda again.

 

[ShahryarHedayatiSHBA]

IRIAF overhauled an F-14, F-7 and a PC-7 after being grounded for 14, 8 and 7 years respectively. All three are operational now.

http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/491452/یک-فروند-اف7-و-یک-فروند-پی‌سی7-اورهال-شدند

 

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IRIAF overhauled a C-130 that was not operational for 10 years. It is back into service:

http://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1394/08/11/905122/اورهال-یک-فروند-هواپیمای-c-130-در-پایگاه-شهید-دوران

 

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Iranian Planes Bring Iraqi Volunteer Battalion to Fight ISIL in Syria

The first photographic evidence of an Iranian Air Force plane that brought Iraqi Shiite volunteer fighters in Syria to fight against ISIL terrorists has appeared on the Internet.

A picture posted on the Instagram account of the Iranian group Holy Defense shows an Iraqi soldier standing in front of an Iranian C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft supposedly in Syria.

"This is probably the first picture of an Iranian Hercules made in Syria and the first documented evidence of the Iranian Air Force being Syria. Flights are have been made from Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran and the city of Tabriz [in the northwest of Iran] since the beginning of the Syrian conflict," a source from Holy Defense told Sputnik.

Iranian planes also bring drones that are used for reconnaissance flights above ISIL military bases, the source told Sputnik.

Comments underneath the picture reveal that some of the Iraqi fighters came to Syria after the beginning of Russian anti-ISIL airstrikes in Syria.

Apart from Iraqi volunteer fighters, the Iranian planes brought with them arms and military equipment, Holy Defense said.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/2...liver-iraqi-soldiers-syria.html#ixzz3qcNuooVX

 

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Newest satellite imagery from the Iran Navy facilities in Bandar Abbas

1. Sina-class missile boat (under construction)
2. Yunes Kilo-class submarine (under heavy modernization and overhaul)
3. Noor Kilo-class submarine (under heavy modernization and overhaul)
4. Sahand Moudge-class frigate (under construction)
5. Shiraz frigate (class unknown, under construction)

 

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Construction of the Iranian frigate Sahand

 

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@ShahryarHedayatiSHBA How are they going to move this in the sea? Shouldn't they build it in a dry dock.

Edit: Ok, saw post 631 now.

 

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IRIN Sahand

* Also known as Moudge 5, it's the 3rd ship of its class to be completed after Jamaran (76) and Damavand (77)
* Unlike previous two with their hulls made up of 29 blocks, Sahand's hull has 20 compartments which illustrates a domestic design and not one based on reverse engineering of British Saam class
* Sahand is the first of Moudge family to utilize a stealthy design, reducing magnetic, heat and radar signatures.
* Like its other brothers already in service, Sahand will be equipped with modern Asr phased array radar and IEI optical sensors.
* Reportedly it will have a larger helipad.
* Unlike Jamaran (76) and Damavand (77) equipped with two foreign-made engines, Sahand will have four Iranian-built engines.
* Sahand will be the first Iranian warship to have variable-pitch propellers which increase maneuverability and efficiency.
* Sahand will have enjoy longer endurance compared to previous ships and will carry twice as much armament.
* It will join Iran's southern fleet next year

 

[The enlightened]

IRIAF overhauled an F-14, F-7 and a PC-7 after being grounded for 14, 8 and 7 years respectively. All three are operational now.

http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/491452/یک-فروند-اف7-و-یک-فروند-پی‌سی7-اورهال-شدند

This looks more of a PR stunt. Can Iran really produce F-14 engine parts? That is a level of technology which Americans and Soviets took 30 years to reach and which China is still yet to reach. Why didn't Iran simply buy Su-27 flankers series.

 

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Construction of the Iranian Corvette Shiraz

 

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This looks more of a PR stunt. Can Iran really produce F-14 engine parts? That is a level of technology which Americans and Soviets took 30 years to reach and which China is still yet to reach.

Iran's industry got some help from Siemens , General Electric and a Russian company in process of making a reliable power turbine blade and now Iran is self sufficient exporter of power turbine blades


http://www.mapnablade.com/en/welcome.aspx

http://www.mapnablade.com/en/products.aspx

http://mapnagroup.com/en/

But Iran's metallurgy is still years behind from making a reliable turbojet blade for it's air force
and to this day I didn't see one official statement or news about making turbojet blades in iran . Probably the only supplier of turbojet blades to IRIAF (for it's f-14 and others) is Russia.

Why didn't Iran simply buy Su-27 flankers series.

Iran, Russia Start Talks on Sukhoi 30

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran and Moscow started talks on the supply of the Russian-made Sukhoi 30 fighter jets to Iran.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940604000281

 

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Do a favor get rid of Saudi and Qatar so that 90% of middle east problem and 50% of worlds problem are solved.:biggrin2:
Any news on Iranian stealth fighter program.
When is first flight.

 

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Do a favor get rid of Saudi and Qatar so that 90% of middle east problem and 50% of worlds problem are solved.:biggrin2:

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Any news on Iranian stealth fighter program.
When is first flight.

F-313 still lacks a proper engine like saturn al-31
I hope we get some reliable engine after the military sanctions removed....

but it's not a real fighter , it's a stealth, subsonic, low flying plane for engaging ships and naval vessels in Persian gulf and it's main armaments include all sort of anti ship cruise missile from low range zafar and nasr to long range ghader and noor ...