General Heydari stated: Today, the M60 tank has reactive armor, stabilizers, a very powerful cannon, optimized and an engine with very high maneuverability, and a variety of far-sighted cameras that leave no gaps for the operator, and besides being capable of maneuvering day and night, it can operate in the dark. Engage with the enemy.
The ability to shoot and target moving subjects has been added to the M60 tank. Also, this tank is equipped with night vision termal cameras to be able to perform operations at night.
Among the other capabilities of the tank that was added to the combat units of the Army Ground Forces today, we can mention the fire alarm and extinguishing system, digital dashboard, laser jamming and warning system.
I just sent in a suggestion for this, hopefully it gets open for discussioned, only issue is it’s extremely bare bones rn, so if it does get opened if you have any extra info I missed I’d gladly take it
No, you become Sabra, Magach, Soleiman 402, or whatever else we want you to be and you will like it. The T-62 hasn’t retired yet, the T-54 hasn’t retired yet (older than it yet in Ukraine rn without any mods lmfao). what makes you think you can? Get out there and fight, you’re down when the country says you’re done.
This is horrendous, it seems like they tried to make a wheeled assault gun of sorts, but had niether a custom hull nor turret available to integrate. North Korea managed something of this sort on their own, which probably doesn’t make Iran’s domestic industry look all too impressive in comparison.
Iranian one’s likely older and likely has some practical justification like reusing older components, easier produce/maintain etc.
We don’t know the extent of the practicality nor the innards of these North Korean Western platform knockoffs.
(The new NK MBT and the NLOS ATGM carrier likely works in that those are capable of lobbing its munition at targets … quite similar to their earlier, existing platforms. We just don’t know how if the advertised new features actually work as integrated practical platforms/systems.
And the new NK SPG is very much derived from Iran’s modern 155mm SPH, the Raad-2)
I would just expect better from a nation vying to build an arsenal worthy or challenging some of the large militaries of the world, even the continued usage of the BTR-60 and M47 seems a bit outdated all things considered.
And I would definitely agree that North Korea’s domestically produced alternatives to Western tech is nowhere near as technologically relevant as they have insisted; it is all just propaganda of course. But at the very least I believe there is an active attempt to provide the same capabilities.
To my knowledge, Iran has yet to bring out any armor that truly leaves defense analysts guessing as much as with the inherent secrecy of NK-made designs.
It also depends though, if it’s used by the IRGC solely, I can believe it being a simple modification since they’re a paramilitary force essentially. If it’s used by the IRIA too, then yeah it’s a bit more surprising.
