It's time for my favourite thread of the year, here's everything we've seen at the Holy Defense parades throughout the country

Thread: The star of the highlight of the day was a new kamikaze drone by the name of Shahed-136B, successor of the famous Shahed-136. 4000km range supposedly

https://x.com/IranDefense/status/1837426288644005890?t=NWpx22_oN4NRi38Ggx_S6Q&s=19

NEZAJA's cursed M60 upgrade "Soleiman-402" has been officially unveiled

It seems that the tank is aimed more for fire support & urban conflict against non state/weaker actors rather than facing other AFVs

https://twitter.com/IranDefense/status/1808213856411394170

With the white covers removed on the 2 boxes, we finally see what's under them. Look to be some kind of sensors, still unclear as to what for

https://x.com/IranDefense/status/1808213873196958077?t=GsTxEZForgXwkqOJ1iCE9Q&s=19

Thread of what we have seen at the 1403 Army Day parade in Iran, I'll update this thread as more info & images are released

🧵: New look at Bavar-373's 8x8 TELAR variant

https://twitter.com/AmirIGM/status/1780529244180791366?t=lTCOjlWxM9TgOKB5Y_7OaQ&s=19

Starting a thread of Israeli equipment losses during the ongoing ground operation by Palestine's Hamas Al Qassam brigades

🧵: This Merkava IV, fitted with Trophy APS (destroyed)

https://twitter.com/IranDefense/status/1710526515782308026?t=0UsMRr8oBgEY4ZisQzotPw&s=19

The Holy Defense parades to commemorate the start of the Iran Iraq war have been held. Here's what we've seen so far

Thread: Paveh-04 cruise missile unveiled

These were seen at Shoigu's visit to Iran the other day, & have been used by the Houthis for years under the name Quds

Thread on Ansarallah (Houthi) parade, lots was seen here's what we saw: Pic 1-2: New Quds-ZO cruise missile. Optically guided & can carry out anti ship role. 1400km range

Pic 3-4: New 2000km range Quds-4

It's everyone's favorite time of the year, the ARMY-2023 expo in Russia

Iran's MODAFL (DIO/AIO/MIO/IEI) had an especially large booth this time, here's what we saw

🧵: A new battlefield ballistic missile was unveiled dubbed "Ababil OP", OP likely standing for optical sensor

The board says that it's capable of use against both ground & sea targets. Note that DIO made a typo & misspelt sea

A new 8 canister launcher was also shown for Ababil OP

Thread on the Fadaeeyan-e Harim-e Velayat 11 exercises held by the Iranian air force (IRIAF/NAHAJA) 🧵:

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Video showing the IRIAF aircraft that participated in the exercises; F-5E/Fs, F-14As, J-7s, F-4Es, & MiG-29A/UBs 2)
SU-24MKs & F-4Es striking ground targets. F-5Fs & Karrar jet UCAVs also seen in video

Here's what we have seen at the 1402 Army Day parade in Iran, I'll update this thread as more info & images are released

🧵: SAM systems:

• New configuration/variant of Tactical Sayyad TELAR with Joshan X-band PESA (as opposed to previous Najm S-band AESA

https://twitter.com/Pataramesh/status/1648359757504192514?t=9LGwQIFySS8CVRdEO_Lb2Q&s=19

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• Khordad-15

• S-300PMU2

• AD-08 Majid SHORADs

What we saw at today's holy defense parades throughout the country

Thread 🧵: Karrar MBT with thermal camouflage & T-72S with cage armor for stopping non tandem HEAT rounds

Note these are superior IRGC version of Karrar with soft kill APS & RWS

Considering recent events, let's take a look at how the average Armenian soldier is equipped

Thread 🧵: The usual infantry kit seen:

• PASGT helmets standard, but old SSh-68 steel helmets still in use.
• Standard issue plate carriers from Russia's Armocom made for Armenia
• AK-74 & AK-103 as standard rifles, optics limited to SOF
• ARMPAT for BDUs
• No encrypted comms

Since I've had some questions regarding IRGC in Syria, here's a great video showing how they're equipped on average

Usual PASGT style helmets of course. Of more interest, Ruyin-2/3 plate carriers which are rarely seen in peacetime, but are standard for combat deployed personnel You can see this same pattern in equipment in many other images of IRGC in Syria. However the lack of proper encrypted communication equipment is quite concerning, something we really only see with Artesh infact

Shahid Soleimani corvette joins the IRGC-N, alongside some other FACs

Thread 🧵: Armament:
• A 2A42 autocannon in Kamand's turret
• 4x 20mm autocannons
• 4x Qadir AShMs (300km)
• 2x Nasir AShMs (90km+)
• 6x land attack cruise missiles (2000km?)
• 16x Sayyad-3 derived SAMs (150km)
• 2-4x chaff/ASM decoy/depth charge launchers (dozen tubes each)

Highlights of latest PMF parade

Thread: Iranian made & supplied HM-20 122mm MRLs. Curious yo whether they have Arash derived guided rockets for them

Good pics of Iran's new Harop style suicide drone, first displayed earlier this year at the army day parade New pod shown off. Perhaps for electronic warfare and countermeasures? Seen mounted on both Kaman-12 and Mohajer-6

Thread: Everything we saw at the new Iranian underground drone base Kaman-12 with Ghaem-5 and unknown pod

Pictures from the gathering of various IRGC and Basij units in Tehran.

Pic 3 gives a rare look at Nasr anti material rifles in service. As well as a side by side comparison of all of Iran's desert digital camo patterns

Thread: Iranian army day parade. We saw some new drone types, older types, and some new SAM TELs The latest member of the Ababil UAV family, Ababil-5 UCAV. Can carry 6 20km+ Ghaem series PGMs or 8km Almas ATGMs. Most likely new engine. Sadly no pics or the FLIR. Has a slightly angled downward facing camera like Ababil-3/4

Iranian Panha-2091 and standard non-tow AH-1J armed with the new generation of Shafaq missiles. For those wondering how the Cobra that lack FLIR balls or TOW TSUs guide their Shafaqs, I'd assume they use TV guidance and view from the HUD.