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The Iranian military unveiled on September 1 a locally upgraded version of the American-made M60 main battle tank, dubbed “Soleiman 1402″.
The upgraded tank was showcased during a ceremony held at the Shahid Zarharan Center of the Army Ground Force. The ceremony was attended by Iranian Army chief commander, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, and Commander of the Ground Force of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari.
Some M60A1 tanks were supplied by the United States to Iran prior to the islamic revolution of 1979. Currently, some 150 tanks of this type remain in service with the Iranian military.
The Soleiman 1402 upgrade includes a new armor package, fire control system, a remotely-controlled machine gun, a laser warning system and an infrared jammer for anti-tank guided missiles. It is still unclear if the Iranian military is planning to upgrade all of its M60 tanks to this standard.
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Faced with serious threats from the United States, Israel and others, Iran has been working non stop to boost its military capabilities.
While most media attention has been forced on Iran’s massive missile and drone program, the country’s development of more traditional military means, like firearms, combat vehicles and artillery, has been also moving forward with much success.
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the persians are not to be trifled with. they are perhaps the oldest continuous civilization on the earth. longevity such as this does not come about by accident.
the persian empire and eastern roman empire under heraclius faced mutual destruction near 680. then both empire were conquered by the muslims in the middle east.
i’m not talking about empires, i’m talking about the civilization & the language.
that’s heavily upgraded, looks like a different tank altogether.
wow, this tank was updated too much
as long as it can take care of a jewish markeva and couple of hundred jews at atime, it will suffice in the battle to drive the jews away from palestine!
to do that you would have first to sink the us and nato fleet in the mediteranian.
and if you would move a big enough military towards isreal, they would use the nukes to destroy your army. so everything besides drones and missiles is pointless in this long distance war.
1402 is a soleimans birthday per hidjra.
looks very cool and impressive blending elements of t-90, merkava iv, kf51
wonder how it compares to idf m60 upgrades. would like to see some era strapped on top of it.
iran always made good use of yank weapons, the f14 in particular. if top gun was a realistic movie, it would be about iranian aces not made up hollywood heroes.
i strongly suspect this tank still sucks
what?
it’s still an m 60.
a 50-60 year old frame with a poor engine and a very high silhouette.
these tanks didn’t compare favorably to soviet tanks during the cold war and it is under-gunned. (assuming it still has a 105 – the article was silent about that)
how is that not dog shit?
no mention of anti-drone defenses…
you can paint an autobot symbol on it but that doesn’t change what it is
actually that looks like a soviet 2a46m; iran upgraded all of its m60a1s to one of two variants, the ‘zulfiqar’ and the ‘samsam’. the zulfiqar uses the 2a46m.
it is now the best time to use them against the savage jewz, iran (and islam) only enemy.
kind of a long drive from iran to palestine
the iranians always give it a try and put up a fight. russia should have allied with them decades ago instead of joining the us and putting sanctions on them.
back then russia thought the usa would never dare to use their dirty tricks on them.
just like china is watching now russia fight allone believing the usa will never dare to do this to them.
ignorance of their enemys is the best ally of the usa.
persia–advanced culturally technologically educationally militarily now likely has nukes
does the m60 mbt come with a free rambo edition m60?
this thing should be flat and round. with a steel wire umbrella. this is not 1920 anymore.
my name is ebubekir ebdulla el zefiri. i am pakistan i am 53 i live germany 10 years munchen.
after ukraina war refugees from ukraina, germany pays less money for our kids. why? ukraina kids 500 euro, muslim kids 300 euro🧑🍼why. mr.sholz go we dont want you. angela merkel mother of muslims again prezident yes. danke angela. no more money to ukraina kids all kids same money i have 6 children germany pays me 3000 euro ukranian father 6 kids 5000 euro we want justice same money
justice would be no money to any of you. just apropriate housing and enough food and clothes as well as education and toys for the kids.
“ukraina kids 500 euro, muslim kids 300 euro”
move to nebraska u fkn fruitcake…
drone happens, russia is killing abrams in ukraine with a 500 dollar drone armor has had its day