Iran commits crimes against AFV decency

[Walter_Sobchak]

This was posted on tanknet back in April, I can't believe I missed it.  I'm pretty sure this constitutes a grave crime against AFV decency and good taste.  And why the glossy green paint?

 

BTR-60PB + M47M turret = "Aghareb" wheeled tank destroyer.

 

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What did poor armored transporter of glorious Dedkov design do to you

[LostCosmonaut]

It's at least something useful to do with any spare M47 turrets lying around. Definitely better than making them into pillboxes. In any case, I wonder how many complete M47s they have left operational? Probably not many, I'd imagine.

[CrashbotUS]

Atrocious. 

[Donward]

Did the Iranians stumble across one of Ensign's or Walter's joke postings on WoT featuring models with swapped turrets?

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When i said BTRs could totally down Bradley's THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT

[CrashbotUS]

That 1976 Ford Pinto paint job is most excellent. 

[Priory_of_Sion]

Better than that Iranian "Stealth fighter"

 

Apparently the vehicle is named after Hasan Aghareb Parast, an Iranian Major General of Iran's 92nd Armored Division and was killed in the Iraq-Iran War. I wasn't aware of non-American vehicles being named after generals. 

[Walter_Sobchak]

I'm pretty sure it's not an M47 turret.  I suspect they took the spare 90mm gun left over from their Sabalan upgrade program and put it in some sort of turret.  All those welding seams and the weird design of the cupola make me think this is perhaps something the Iranians made themselves.

[Sturgeon]

I'm pretty sure it's not an M47 turret.  I suspect they took the spare 90mm gun left over from their Sabalan upgrade program and put it in some sort of turret.  All those welding seams and the weird design of the cupola make me think this is perhaps something the Iranians made themselves.

 

The turret itself is, but I think they chopped the gun mount and gun off an M47 turret.

[Donward]

It looks vaguely like one of the vehicles you'd get in a knock-off brand of green army men from a more down-in-the-heels discount store.

[CrashbotUS]

Looks like a trash bin welded on the top of a grain silo. 

[Sturgeon]

It looks like something out of Deus Ex. See, I was raised in the 1990s, so I have been programmed to see wheels and think 'futuristic'.

There are probably, like, two people on this forum who will even get that joke...

[Walter_Sobchak]

If that thing were a plastic model, I'd tell them they held the spray paint can too close when they painted it.  That's how you get those shiny spots.  

 

When I was a kid my friend and I would take all the model kits we didnt care about and rebuild them into all sorts of weird vehicles.  Then, we would take them into the woods and blow them up with bottle rockets.  It was good fun.  This Iranian thing reminds of me of the crap we used to create, although we typically did a little better with the paint job.

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There is probably more green on that abomination than in all of Iran

[Life_In_Black]

That definitely started out as the front of an M47 turret with the gun mount and mantlet. Looks like they gave it a smaller turret ring to fit it onto that abomination. I guess Iran doesn't have too many M36 Jacksons left at this point and tried creating their own version of the M36's turret.

[Xlucine]

I agree on the M47 turret nose welded onto a trash can. They're re-engined it as well, going by the rear hull, which is a good idea with the BTR-60

[CrashbotUS]

I don't think anything past the mantlet is M47. Not sure what that weird ridge is on the top of the turret is either? That oddity on the back of the turret really does look like a trash bin. 

[Belesarius]

Holy hell.  That's a vehicle so ugly, not even a mother could love it.

[CrashbotUS]

It's almost begging to be blown up. 

[Belesarius]

It's almost begging to be blown up. 

Sorta like Iran, in general.

[CrashbotUS]

This thing makes me missing shooting things with artillery. I bet the guy in that cupola would shoot out like a roman candle. 

[Sturgeon]

"90mm gun"

"Tank destroyer"

????

[Khand-e]

"90mm gun"

"Tank destroyer"

 

The M36 Jackson would like a word son!

[Life_In_Black]

This reminds me, I wish I could find that picture I had of an Iranian M18 from back in the '50s. I'm fairly certain I saved it somewhere as I remember showing it to Colli on TS once, but I'll be damned if I can find it again.