Path: spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!verio!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: Wed Apr 10 03:22:44 2002 Delivery-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:22:43 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:22:42 -0700 (PDT) id 16vExX-0003cj-00 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:04:11 +0200 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:04:08 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:04:08 -0700 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:04:08 -0700 To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: muffin@direkt.at (Tom Cooper) Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Irans armoured forces? Date: 10 Apr 2002 03:04:08 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <1e83c36d.0204100204.6cb1ed48@posting.google.com> References: <3CAA0CBE.804C62EB@hotmail.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.152.143.101 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2002 10:04:08 GMT Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: c1dbf399.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1018554491 gemini.tycho.net 79558 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:44188 Daniel Kekäläinen <keckelainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3CAA0CBE.804C62EB@hotmail.com>... > Are there any of the british tanks supplied to the Shah (1970s) still in > service or were they all used up in the 80s war between Iran and Iraq? I > can´t remember the name right now... Not Challenger and not Centurion. > *Argh!* Iran still operates some 400 Chieftains (of 855 Chieftain Mk.5/5Ps purchased from 1971), over 100 FV4030/1 (out of 1.200 examples ordered, only 187 were delivered) and some 100 Scorpion light tanks in a total of one armored division and one armored brigade. > What else does Iran field today? Jane´s Armour Guide does not give any > conclusive answers. Well, Jane's is very poor when it comes to any kind of infos on Iran. The IRIA and the IRGC currently operate many different things, with the IRIA foremost using western equipment, and the IRGC foremost exSoviet/Russian, Polish and other equipment. Besides, Iran is now producing also an indigenious MBT, and quite a few different APCs, see here (few of photos): http://www.acig.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=482&forum=12&9 Regards, Tom