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2005-12-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

StrategyPage: Iran Builds RPG-7 Under License

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Posted by ed 2005-12-29 09:38|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2005-12-29 10:56|| Front Page Top

#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.
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Posted by DepotGuy 2005-12-29 17:38|| 2005-12-29 17:38|| Front Page Top

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