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| StrategyPage: Iran Builds RPG-7 Under License |
| 2005-12-29 |
| One of the many arms deals Iran has recently done with Russia, is one to allows Iran to do licensed production of the RPG-7. Iran is believed to be producing over 10,000 RPG-7 launchers a year, as well as a variety of rockets for them. Several countries produce unlicensed knock offs of the RPG-7, but Iran wants to stay on the right side of one of the few countries that will sell it weapons. RPG-7s are favorites with terrorists and rebel movements, because the rocket launcher is cheap and easy to use. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 From Defense Industry Daily Back on December 8, 2005, DID ran a story about Forecast International's market forecast for the $5.33 billion man-portable anti-armor and bunker buster weapons market over the next decade. We mentioned that the Russians were poised to dominate production with the RPG-26/27, and that the market itself was bifurcating into state-of-the-art, high cost designs (mostly from Europe) and cheaper, simpler weapons (mostly Russian and ex-Soviet) - but there was also a piece of interesting information embedded deeper in the report. "Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) will be the most significant player involved in RPG-7 production during the forecast period. Iranian licensed production of the RPG-7 will account for 4.25 percent of all new man-portable anti-armor and bunker buster weapons production, worth 2.88 percent of the total market value, through 2014." That translates into a production total of over 80,000 weapons, with half of that estimated production occurring in the 2005-2008 period. Three guesses where many of those RPG-7s will end up. Link |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-12-29 17:38 |
| #1 This is unacceptable. Bomb the factory the minute it starts up, because we KNOW where the damn things will end up. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-29 10:56 |