Illustrative image. (Tasnim News Agency)
Iran has armed Basij volunteers with advanced man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), according to photos that emerged on social networks on March 26.
The Basij, completely made up of volunteers, is one of the five branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The paramilitary force is reported to have more than 25 million reservists, with at least 600,000 available for immediate call-up.
Since the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran, multiple headquarters, positions and even checkpoints of the Basij have been struck. Nevertheless, it has been reported that the force broke into tens of thousands of cells and spread all over the Islamic Republic.
The MANPADS distributed to Basij volunteers — at least the ones seen in the latest photos — have been identified as the Misagh-3, an Iranian copy of the Chinese QW-18.
The missile, which is equipped with a dual-band passive infrared seeker, has an engagement range of five kilometers with a flight ceiling of up to four kilometers.
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It is believed that the American fighter jet that was hit over the port city of Chabahar in the southern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan on March 25 — reportedly an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet — was targeted with a Misagh-3, possibly even fired by a cell of the Basij.
A report by CNN from March 25 also revealed that Iran has deployed MANPADs on Kharg Island, its most critical maritime oil export hub.
The U.S. has been weighing using troops to seize the tiny island in the northeastern Persian Gulf as leverage over the Iranians to coerce them to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deployment of MANPADS like Misagh-3 would make an assault on the island extremely risky, especially for helicopters attempting to land troops or even fighter jets providing close air support.
Arming Basij volunteers with advanced weapons like MANPADS indicate that Iran is taking the threat of a U.S. ground operation in Kharg, or elsewhere, very seriously, and preparing to fight with full force.
In fact, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency revealed on March 26 that more than a million troops have been already mobilized for a ground battle. A military source also told the agency that there has been a “massive” influx of requests from Iranian youth towards the Basij, the IRGC and the regular military.
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even when you point out multiple times the unnecessary vulgarity of their comments they just keep doing it. imo this is proof it’s done just to degrade the comments section and turn people away from sf.
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kai oi “i.r.g.c.”, και η “χεζμπολα”, ως παραστρατιωτικα σωματα, με προτυπο την s.s. δημιουργηθηκαν !!! ο “μεγας πολεμος” συνεχιζεται !!!
if there are enough of these weapons to go around, then a whole network could be created to cover the cities. if an enemy aircraft escapes one hostile area it will run into another, and another, until its luck runs out.
aa drones armed with sams are a possible solution.
do the land invasion then 85% of americans will want to kick your sick ass out of the white house instead of the 65% now
we are at the end game now… they know the people have woken up and they keep doubling down with their violence and control. they have installed fences around the white house, some of them have moved onto military bases for protection, they have passed all sort of “rules” to do this and that, they have built/ordered bunkers, etc etc, they can feel the noose tightening around their necks. bring on the global revolution and hang them all (after a fair trial).
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the service ceiling of these manpads could be extended to 10 km or more by shooting them from a drone (e.g. shahed-136 or above).
soldier count = 600,000 vs 5000. nothing to question
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everyone except the oil barons and their coat tails knows.
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i believe kharg is a diversion. they’ll come in from another area. if russia and china are worth a shot they should be feeding iran good intelligence and a steady supply of weapons. even intelligence officers and special forces on the ground to help, just like the us and nazo does in ukraine. but we shall see just how intelligent and devoted the russians and chinese are as supposed allies. we’ll see
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