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| 'Iranian weapon ends Apache copters' air supremacy' |
| 2010-02-04 |
| A senior Iranian military official says Iran has developed a special weapon that can bring down Apache helicopters. Col. Nasser Arab-Beigi, the director of the self-sufficiency organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), told the Fars news agency on Tuesday that the "special weapon" can also target advanced tanks. He noted that the new weapon will put an end to the battlefield supremacy of the United States' Apache helicopters. "The enemy should not assume that if it attacks Iran, its Apache helicopters will perform as satisfactorily as they do in Iraq and Afghanistan," Arab-Beigi stated. He noted that the IRGC self-sufficiency organization has focused its research on the enemies' threats, adding that the organization closely studies the enemies' capabilities and singles out those that could be a threat to Iran. Nasser-Beigi said that the organization then establishes research teams to develop the weapons necessary to fend off the threats. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 A stinger or a Sa-(whatever manpad number) can do it. If it is close enough the chopper have no time to react and launch flares. It needs an active kill defense. |
| Posted by: Glush Wittlesbach8127 2010-02-04 21:48 |
| #9 Many years ago, being on the receiving end of a training attack by an A-10, I reached the profound conclusion that there is no way in pluperfect hell I would want to get into a spat with one of those demons for real. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-02-04 09:48 |
| #8 It's too bad that whatever weapon they have developed will have been destroyed by either B-52's,-1's, -2' or perhaps F-15E's LONG before the Apache's are on station. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2010-02-04 09:42 |
| #7 A battalion of Apaches got rather famously shredded in a well-coordinated ambush during the Spring 2003 campaign in Iraq. All it required was a system of spotters with cellphones and a regiment of guys with assault rifles all shooting at the right time in the right direction. Apaches aren't air-supremacy weapons, they're eggshells with hammers. Now if the Iranians have figured out a way to reliably and rapidly bring down Warthogs - then I'm impressed. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-02-04 09:10 |
| #6 Go Go Apache! This should be considered a compliment. |
| Posted by: Shineng Ebbolush2214 2010-02-04 08:57 |
| #5 We used Apaches to tear open Saddams air defenses in Desert Storm. Does the Iranian system compare? Iranians can be quite clever, so it might... "Party in 10!" |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2010-02-04 06:28 |
| #4 I thought it had already been established that Apaches are dead meat in the face of any sort of halfway competent air defense system. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-02-04 02:39 |
| #3 See "Catch 22" and reference to the 400 millimeter "LePage Glue Gun" which glues entire formations while in flight... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-02-04 00:57 |
| #2 First pics |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-04 00:29 |
| #1 There you go again DC. EMP. Why remark about 'advanced tanks'? Where's the Buffs and the carpet? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-02-04 00:15 |
