Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sedad BTR-82 variant of BTR-60 with ZU-23-2. [54] Heidar 6 variant with BMP-1 turret installed onto BTR-60, Heidar 7 variant with ERA bricks, modified interior, and new turret installed with a single 23 mm gun. [54] Heidar-5 mine layer variant and Shahram NRBC detection vehicle variants of BTR-60.
The regular armed forces have an estimated 398,000 personnel: the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces with 350,000, of which 220,000 are conscripts; the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy with 18,000, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force with 37,000 airmen. [1] The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force is a branch split off from ...
The United States Department of Defense continues to have a large number of temporary military bases in Iraq, most a type of forward operating base (FOB). Depending on their size or utility, the installations were called: camp, forward operating bases (FOBs), contingency operating bases (COBs), contingency operating sites (COSs), combat ...
The military forces of the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran cooperated with each other to overthrow the Taliban regime which had conflicts with the government of Iran. Iran's Quds Force helped US forces and Afghan rebels in 2001 uprising in Herat.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Army [9] ( Persian: ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران ), acronymed AJA ( Persian: آجا ), simply known as the Iranian Army or the Artesh ( Persian: ارتش, romanized : Arteš, (Ərtēš) ), is the conventional military of Iran and part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. [10] It is tasked ...
The following article lists three Orders of Battle for the Iranian Army at different periods. Note, that this is not the order of battle of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards but of the regular ground forces ( Artesh ).
These purges resulted in a drastic decline in the Iranian military's operational capacities. Their regular army (which, in 1978, was considered the world's fifth most powerful) had been badly weakened. A shortage of spare parts for Iran's U.S.-made and British-made equipment began to cripple Iran's military forces.
Military ranks of Iran. The military ranks of Iran are the ranks used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces (IRIAF). The armed forces are split into the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The ranks used by the Law Enforcement Forces share a similar structure to the military.