Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.tycho.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Approved: sci-military-moderated@retro.com Return-Path: news@google.com Delivery-Date: Fri Apr 12 23:48:20 2002 Delivery-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:48:20 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:48:19 -0700 (PDT) id QQmkjh09051 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 06:29:47 GMT for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:29:43 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:29:41 -0700 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:29:42 -0700 To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: muffin@direkt.at (Tom Cooper) Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Irans armoured forces? Date: 12 Apr 2002 23:29:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <1e83c36d.0204122229.c541da2@posting.google.com> References: <3CAA0CBE.804C62EB@hotmail.com> <uak78cmrmhtbc6@corp.supernews.com> <a8jfl7$s8tsn$1@ID-135152.news.dfncis.de> <887586368.609469@nntp.win.co.nz> <a9251t$hec$1@knossos.btinternet.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.152.222.57 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Apr 2002 06:29:42 GMT Content-Length: 1421 Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 439a2b29.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1018743458 gemini.tycho.net 79557 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:44300 "David Rock" <The.Rocks@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<a9251t$hec$1@knossos.btinternet.com>... > The International Institute for Strategic Studies gives the following > figures for Irans 1999-2000 tank inventory: > > 110 T-54/55, 160 M-60A1, > 75 T-62, 220 Chinese Type-59, > 230 T-72, 200 Chinese Type-69 > 250 Chieften III/V, > 150 M-47/48, > > (plus 80 scorpions). Iran apparently started a production of reverse-engineered Scorpions, and a small family of other AFVs based on the same chasis. The IRIA has never got any M-48s: the try to get some from Italy and Greece during the mid-1980s was apparently spoiled. Zulfiqar-2s entered production two years back and is slanted to replace most of existing types (foremost the older western types). > If you add all the mod's they have made to the tanks it adds up to a > logistical nightmare. Bear in mind, that Soviet types are used by the IRGC, and western types by the IRIA, and that each of these has its own infrastructure. The local industry proved capable of not only supporting but also upgrading, modernizing and standardizing what's at hand (for example: all the Ty-59/69 and T-54/55s are being brought to the same standard, and equipped with same FCS, so if - then it should rather be said, that the IRGC operates 530 T-72Zs but breaking down the numbers per T-54/55s and Ty-59/69s).