http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/26/analysis-of-irans-aa-defenses/ Firearms not Politics Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/26/analysis-of-irans-aa-defenses/#comment-1567 me Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:31:22 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/26/analysis-of-irans-aa-defenses/#comment-1567 Oh, definitely. Outside the US, Japan, Russia, and Western Europe, air defense mostly means Russian 14.5mm HMGs on ZPU antiaircraft mounts with World War II type fire control (which is to say, a "spiderweb" sight and the Mark One Eyeball) and maybe a handful of forty-year-old Russian SA7 man-portable SAMs. Anything more sophisticated gets very expensive very quickly and is vastly beyond the capability of illiterate Third World conscripts to use effectively anyway. Oh, definitely. Outside the US, Japan, Russia, and Western Europe, air defense mostly means Russian 14.5mm HMGs on ZPU antiaircraft mounts with World War II type fire control (which is to say, a “spiderweb” sight and the Mark One Eyeball) and maybe a handful of forty-year-old Russian SA7 man-portable SAMs. Anything more sophisticated gets very expensive very quickly and is vastly beyond the capability of illiterate Third World conscripts to use effectively anyway.

]]> http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/26/analysis-of-irans-aa-defenses/#comment-1561 Roys Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:42:22 +0000 http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/02/26/analysis-of-irans-aa-defenses/#comment-1561 Didn't know how I missed out the North Korean one but this stuff makes for pretty interesting reading. Plus the diagrams of the various weapon systems look great too. Didn’t know how I missed out the North Korean one but this stuff makes for pretty interesting reading. Plus the diagrams of the various weapon systems look great too.

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