Iran06 October, 20262 min read
Iranian Army Stockpiles New Missiles And Drones, Spokesman Says Production Continues
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Iran's army reports massive stockpile of newly developed missiles and drones, production accelerating. Defense production accelerates under new doctrine, says Iran's defense chief.
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Stockpile, missiles, drones
The Iranian Army said it has accumulated a massive stockpile of newly developed offensive and defensive weaponry, with high-intensity production of advanced missiles and drones continuing at an accelerated pace. Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, the spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, told Fars News Agency in an interview that “The new defensive and offensive equipment, including missiles and drones, was being produced on a daily basis during the 40-day (Ramadan) war, and today, their production continues with even greater intensity,”.
Akraminia added that “Currently, a massive stockpile of this equipment is at the disposal of the Iranian Army forces, and the Army is fully prepared in terms of equipment.” Akraminia said the Army has already deployed some of these new systems in the field, and it plans to officially unveil them to the media at the “appropriate time and if necessary”.
Production lines did not stop
Major General Amir Hatami, the Army Commander-in-Chief, praised the defence industry's staff for keeping production lines running throughout the 12-day and Ramadan wars. Hatami said that despite enemy attempts to halt the chain of production of military equipment and weapons, “defence industry production lines did not pause for a moment.”
Mehrdad Akhlaghi, CEO of the Defence Industries Organisation of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, visited the General Staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Headquarters and met with Hatami. Hatami described the recent imposed war as showing that Iran’s indigenous defence industry has been and will be “a supporter and backer of Iranian forces on the battlefield,” while Akhlaghi said the Defence Industries Organisation and its industrial complex are ready to expand cooperation with all four branches of the army.
Deterrence and battlefield backing
Lt. Gen. Hatami told Mehrrad Akhlaqi, the proposed candidate for the Ministry of Defense and the chief executive of the Defense Industries Organization, that managers and workers did not allow the enemies’ “malicious plots” to come true during the imposed war that lasted 12 days and the Ramadan War.
Hatami framed the latest imposed war as proof that “the nation’s national defense industry, born from the wise measures of the Imam, the Martyr of the Nation, has always been and will continue to be a support and backing for the fighters on the battlefield.”
The Army chief also said that “thanks to the guidance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Ayatollah Sayyid “Mustafa” Hosseini Khamenei (may his exalted state be preserved),” the enemy’s calculations and aims failed.
In a separate meeting report, Hatami said the defence industry forms “a pillar and a backing for the fighters on the battlefields,” while Mehr News Agency described the Ramadan War as “the Zionist-American aggression against Iran.”