Basir

Iranian laser-guided 155 mm artillery shell

Basir is an Iranian laser-guided, 155 mm high explosive artillery shell designed to destroy enemy tanks, vehicles and other moving or non-moving targets with high precision.^[1]

These shells were unveiled on January 30, 2012, on the first day of the so-called "Daheye Fajr", a key point during the Islamic Revolution by defense minister Ahmad Vahidi. He later added that this system is very useful in mountainous areas.

Iranian TV showed some footage of the weapon being fired from an HM 41 howitzer at land and sea targets. It has a reported range of 20 km.^[2]

Operators

Iran

References

^ Mashregh news
^ According to the poster beneath the reporter and his speech

External links

Video

Weapons and military equipment designed or manufactured in Iran

Firearms

Service rifles	Karabiner 98k Persian Brno G3A6 KL-7.62 S-5.56 KH-2002
Pistols	PC-9 ZOAF
Submachine guns	PPSh-41 MPT-9
Machine guns	MGA3 PKM-T80 MGD-12.7 Tabas
Gatling guns	Akhgar Muharram
Sniper rifles	Nakhjir Sayyad Shaher Taktab (Under development) Arash

Armoured
fighting vehicles
and other
land-based vehicles

Tanks	Type-72Z Safir-74 Mobarez T-72S Zulfiqar Tosan Sabalan Tiam Karrar
Tankettes	Sayyad
APCs	Boragh Rakhsh Cobra BMT-2 APC Sarir Hoveizeh Makran
Self-propelled artillery	Raad-1 Raad-2 Bahman (SPAAG)
Other vehicles	Safir Samandar Kaviran Neynava Sepehr Ranger Zoljanah

Artillery

HM 40
HM 41

MLRS

Recoilless rifles

M40
SPG-9

Tank guns

Mortars

Anti-aircraft guns

Naval guns

Fajr-27

Rocket-propelled
grenades

RPG-7
Saegheh (rocket)
Type 69 RPG

Artillery rockets

Artillery shells

Basir

Guided missiles

Short-range ballistic missiles	R-17E Shahab-1 Shahab-2 Qiam 1 Fateh-110 Fateh-313 Ra'ad-500 Zolfaghar Persian Gulf Fateh Mobin Hormuz-1 Hormuz-2 Fateh Mobin
Medium-range ballistic missiles	Shahab-3 Ghadr-110 Emad Khorramshahr Fajr-3 Ashoura Sejjil Dezful Shahid Haj Qasem Kheibar Shekan Fattah
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles	Shahab-4/IRIS (shelved) (alleged) Shahab-5 (alleged) Shahab-6 (alleged) Project Koussar (alleged)
Surface-to-air missiles	Misagh-1 Misagh-2 Sayyad-1 Sayyad-2 Shahab Thaqeb Mersad Bavar 373 Khordad 15 Talaash Raad Ya Zahra
Anti-helicopter missiles	Qa'em Raad
Anti-tank guided missiles	Saegheh RAAD Toophan Toophan 2 Toophan 5 Towsan Dehlaviyeh Tondar
Anti-ship missiles	Zafar Qader Noor Kowsar Nasr-1 Raad Sadid-1 Abu Mahdi
Cruise missiles	Meshkat (Under development) Sagheb Soumar Hoveizeh Ya-Ali Abu Mahdi
Torpedoes	Hoot Valfajr
Air-to-surface missiles	Zoobin Shafaq Shahin 3 Sattar Asre-67 Bina Fajr-4
Air-to-air missiles	Fatter Sedjil Fakour-90
Anti-ship ballistic missiles	Khalij Fars/Persian Gulf Hormoz-1 Hormoz-2 Zulfiqar Basir
Electro-optically guided bombs	Qadr Qassed 1