Not a T-90 | Karrar MBT

[@imtiredtiredtired]

Regardless of our opinion on the current Iranian government, it is respectable that they're able to produce lots of their armaments domestically. This tank's specification is quite impressive considering the sanctions imposed on Iran.

[@HanSolo__]

I don't know if they have much more options. They will still push an old Mango thru this pipe because they don't have the technology to develop modern canons let alone the ammo for it. They've developed welded turret so that's a plus. Some components are pulled a bit here and there, but can't expect miracles. The rest is kinda well known. All that Russia provided a long time ago. We are talking about the oil-rich country. And by rich, I mean *RICH* EDIT: The unchanged hull provides protection similar to T-72B (1989), PT-91 (early - 1994), or any other T-72M1/B with simple ERA 1gen. It has no 1200HP engine. It has no 1000HP. If they can put 800HP reliably - I would be impressed.

[@lukagg998]

@@HanSolo__ t72m1 is t72a equivalent, t72b is much stronger

[@hemidas]

Necessity breeds innovation.

[@IronWarrior86]

That may well be... but it still won't stand a chance against its main adversary an M1A2sepV4. Then you have US armored forces crew quality, maneuvering skills, and superior planning, all of which are on a whole other level. It would be like comparing an Elite sports athletes team to a bunch of school kids.

[@someboi4535]

@@IronWarrior86 uuuh I will have to disagree on the superior planning part Also I don't think that the karrar will ever face the M1A2 SEP V3 nor did the engineers of the karrar put that into their mind

[@l.h.9747]

should have called it "i cant believe its not a T-90"

[@canaanite23]

Lol

[@howtoguidesandgameplay7435]

I always love when a new video comes out

[@jakemocci3953]

Iran is developing a pretty cool indigenous arms industry

[@aymanayad7230]

btw Karrar means attacker in arabic, although iran doesnt speak arabic they still use a lot of arabic words in their naming scheme, mostly from the quran

[@warna1244]

We have a lot of Arabic words staying with our language since the arab expansion and golden age of islam And the name of the tank comes from the imam Ali's nick name as heydar karar

[@outlawfly664]

Arabic grammar was founded by the Persians mind you

[@aymanayad7230]

@@outlawfly664 lmao

[@outlawfly664]

@@aymanayad7230 Yeah truth sometimes can be ironic

[@warna1244]

@@outlawfly664 an iranian named sibawayeh wrote Arabic grammer in a book called alkitab

[@patriotenfield3276]

Zulfiqar MBT is my favourite Iranian tank. Unfortunately very few details are about it available

[@Panzergruppe22]

it's probably a propaganda piece, or attempt to modernize / rebuilt their M60A1 (the first Zulfiqar) or make new tank based on it which unsuccessful in the end. They also made Sabalan prototype which is a modernized M47 tank but it's never heard anymore. Instead they choose Karrar, which is more reasonable since they already made T-72S under license as stated by the narrator.

[@warna1244]

@@Panzergruppe22 they have kinda stopped developing tanks they only have 30 zulfaghar tanks They are fully focused on building missiles

[@grandayatollah5655]

@@Panzergruppe22 yep. Zulfiqar was a stepping stone to Karrar. I wonder if we'll see Karrar's with Zulfiqar-3 hulls one day

[@beyondfubar]

An impressive modernization of a tank that solidly earned it's heritage plates before I could drive. Looks slick too. Now that's expertly executed compliment/insult sandwich.

[@remymunasifi1458]

*KARRAR* _appears_ to be a very good upgrade from their *T72S.* Until the gun, fcs, era and other electronics are better known it will always be regarded as a cheap take off to the awesome *T90MS < T90M Proryv-3*

[@HanSolo__]

This is not anything remotely close to T-90MS. More like the very first T-90 from 1993 with a welded turret. Not even that, because the Russian tank already had better gun and Kontakt-5 ERA. The closest to this would be Polish PT-91 M2A2 or Belarusian T-72BME (if it would get welded turret.) Both with faaaar better FCS tho. I mean 1200 HP? Seriously? T-72M4CZ obtained 1200 Perkins Condor CV12 the same that Brits have in their Challenger. And they still preferred to put it in lowered 1000HP version to not ruin the drive. Poles use 850HP and 1000HP in their tank but they supplied Iraq for the war in 1991 and were world wide exporter of T-series. Not home production of half made M and M1 in 200 pieces. More like 3000.

[@theodorsebastian4272]

@@HanSolo__ Not to mention the fact that Iran probably couldn’t make a modern composite armor,Even if they have access to captured M1A1.

[@outlawfly664]

​@@theodorsebastian4272 Oh please the M1A1 is a joke. Saudi Arabia lost more than 100 M1s by the Houthis using second hand Iranian ATGMS, same goes to Israel who also lost a whole tank legion of 4th generation Merkvanas (Using M1 composite armour) and M1s to Hezbollah who also used Iranian weaponry. You jokers make to many unfounded assumptions. Now having said that Tanks like fighter jets in modern warfare are becoming obsolete either way.

[@theodorsebastian4272]

@@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt Well the M1A2 was never captured,Iraq M1A1 probably was captured.

[@HanSolo__]

@@theodorsebastian4272 Exactly. You need a freaking industry branch evolution to pull off something like this.

[@AhmadSharifi-nc3qw]

It doesn't matter if it's a copy of the T90 tank or not, what's important is that Iran is able to produce these tanks under the hardest sanction regimes ever imposed on a country. That shows that Iran is not a weak country. Image what they would be able to produce if they weren't under a sanction regime.

[@abiyasa9839]

They would produce thousand of Karrar tank if they didn't get sanction

[@pechorin5842]

Iran have some interesting design experiments in the past. But it seems they eventually choose a more conservative path.

[@COLT6940]

More like fake path.

[@mansari7310]

@@COLT6940 like their fake drone that make West cry

[@Selvariabell]

"This is no T-90 boy, no T-90!" - Persian Ramba Ral (probably)

[@parhamghm]

😂what the hell is ramba ral?😂 i think u mistake indians and iranians, and to be honest it is a T-90, maybe even worse than t-90😂 ,

[@Selvariabell]

@parhamghm Oh, it's a Gundam reference. Ramba Ral is the character who said the line, "This is no Zaku boy, no Zaku!" The line became a meme template, replacing the word "Zaku" with anything. And given how much of a garbage T-90 is, it doesn't really matter.

[@17denby]

@@parhamghmit’s way worse than a t-90, the original t-90 is actually a really good tank this is a knockoff

[@Amen6magi]

Ukrain war😂​@@17denby

[@mahdiparandak6585]

Karrar is an Upgrade package for Iranian T-72s.new engine, new fire control system, add armor and upgrade communication systems.

[@hoseynheydari2901]

WROOONG

[@revengeproductions9697]

No way a video on iran on this channel??? im about to fan girl lmao

[@N9YSQ]

Sounds like an upgraded T72

[@jamesngotts]

Lol not a T-90, just a license built copy of one. Love the part about the ERA being a copy of Russian ERA followed by the statement it was built without help from Russia

[@qarmatianwarhorse6028]

It's called reverse engineering, 🇩🇺🇲🇧🇫🇺🇨🇰. Kontakt-5 ERA blocks are very easily acquirable from the inventory of the syrian armed forces Iranians fight alongside in syria and a team of chemical engineers won't need much time decoding the composition of the secret sauce within.

[@grandayatollah5655]

@@qarmatianwarhorse6028 Relikt not Kontakt-5

[@Xumak525]

Could we get a video on tanks from, south Asia. Arjun, Al-zarrar and Al-khalid. Would really be interesting

[@patriotenfield3276]

also add MBT 59 Durjoy from Bangladesh , Vijayanta Medium Tank from India , and 122mm Light Tank from Myanmar.

[@m.salleh5919]

Agreed. Had enough of Persian pomposity.

[@Edario]

I love tank design stuff

[@shatbad2960]

Great content, as ever!

[@tasman006]

It would be interesting if you could do a vid on the Iranian earlier project the Zulfiqar tank 1,2 and the last upgrade Zulfiqar 3. The Zulfiqar 3 at least some where given to North Korea whom cometically altered it a bit and called it the M2020 for sure the 7 road wheels give it away and looking like an Abrams tank clone. Though it is a combo of Western and Russian influence It would be cool if you guys did a vid on this tank.

[@jamesedwardzerrudo4522]

it's interesting the tank about ASCOD 2 sabrah light tank too know about

[@Subhumanoid_]

Typical Iranian design, the poor driver has to do _everything_ while 'those above him' drink tea and criticize. 7:10

[@subjectc7505]

Iran: it's not a T-90 Russia: 😐you could have asked you know

[@Ironmikeblood]

"Javlin Bait" 👍👍

[@Adjwjkdk]

We take javelin's

[@someboi4535]

The karrar is not a T-90 nor is it T-72, it's uuuh... If the 2 tanks had a baby

[@notworldwarthunder2035]

Has it actually been put into service in 2020??

[@revengeproductions9697]

idk about 2020 but i can confirm 2022

[@qarmatianwarhorse6028]

Yeah, it was towards the end of the Gregorian year (early October).

[@grandayatollah5655]

Ye. We've seen it in exercises, at bases, and people have taken pics of it on the road in various places

[@maxout214226]

Given that the roof ERA appears to be cosmetic sheet metal, I cant help but wonder what else is fake on this tank

[@EnRandomSten]

It probably wont do squat vs modern ammo but it could be some form of externally mounted coposite/ceramic armour. As I said, wont do much against modern rounds but added armour is still armour soo... Worth it?

[@grandayatollah5655]

@@EnRandomSten relikt is build specifically against modern anti tank ammo

[@grandayatollah5655]

No it's not lmao, it's an Iranian ERA based off Chinese FY series

[@dassatisfan]

Any reliable information or images about armor composites? Imo its most important thing in tank chassis, as tanks get upgraded, armor inside generally stays the same

[@antimatter4733]

Well since it's a new welded turret with clear spaces for composite blocks I think it's pretty obvious, not really that difficult to make composite armor, your armor protection is directly proportional to the mass, depleted uranium, tungsten carbide and ceramics only reduce the size of the armor, not their weight.

[@grandayatollah5655]

I can send you some pics of the slots for composite armor in the new welded turret and a pic they released of the Karrar's composite layout. Where would you like me to send them?

[@lolgic930]

T-90M from alibaba

[@reyhanabdillah2005]

Cant belive they can make tank even under sanction

[@Southerly93]

There's some really good upgrades in here, but I seriously doubt those protection numbers unless the Iranians somehow got their hands on relict type ERA

[@92HazelMocha]

I mean look at it. That's clearly Relikt. They can claim its not, but Relikt is the only ERA that looks even remotely Iike that even considering other Russian ERA's. Also it would explain the protection figures. My guess is just like Iran was trying to hide that they were producing Shahed-136's for Russia they are also trying to hide that Russia clearly gave them some help with Karrar.

[@ItsRawdraft2]

Syria uses Relikt and given the state of Iran-Syria diplomatic relations it's possible that the Syrians sold them a bunch of blocks

[@nicolasrouvreau8365]

Saying the karrar is not a t-90 is like saying a type 59 is not a t-55

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

Yes, the first variant of the Type 59 is literally a T-54A, the later variants built on it.

[@EpicThe112]

I wonder how would the Karrar MBT fare against Emirati LeClerq tanks Saudi and US Army M1 Abrams Omani Challenger 2 Israeli Merkava Mk 3 & 4 Kuwaiti T-72 derived M84s. Since this is based on the T-72 family US Saudi Kuwaiti and Israeli Army stream know how to defeat one due to T-72s being used in the region since the 1982 Lebanon War.

[@امیررضاصادقی-ع9ف]

Iran has a long history with anti tanks so yeah no armored fight just anti tanks and tanks

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

@@امیررضاصادقی-ع9ف agree

[@EpicThe112]

@@امیررضاصادقی-ع9ف Good point but the Israelis and US Military and allies in the Region might have tanks equipped with Trophy system to stop Iranian Made ATGMs which Iran supplies to Syria Hamas and Hezbollah Houthis

[@imgvillasrc1608]

The only fair way to tell is if the Iranians themselves demonstrate all those tanks within their military. Arab armies with any modern equipment would just perform abysmally against any army with the same statistics.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

It would be a turkey shoot. Remember the Iranians don't have any decent armour piercing ammo, the only thing it would destroy would be the Kuwaiti M-84 tanks. Also Iranian tankers are crap as well.

[@daddust]

What does Iranian small arms exports have to do with its tank program?

[@Andre25077]

Iran can only produce their tanks on a 1:72 scale.

[@Archer89201]

666 likes now I'm unsure I want to like it and spoil the number

[@موسى_7]

12:00 Finally I know the gun elevation and depression. Only -6° depression. That's not good for defensive fighting. Western tanks have -10°.

[@lil__boi3027]

4:44 turret mounted anti-what? English isn't my first language so if anyone can help i will appreciate it

[@mahdikhavary7951]

من عاشق تانک هستم

[@EcchiRevenge]

T-90MS at home

[@kaiserwilhelmshatner3156]

I am sure this is as combat effective as their stealth fighter with the cardboard dashboard and canopy that cannot close if someone is sitting in it.

[@qarmatianwarhorse6028]

Already in service with the Army. And your lack of belief can always be corrected by setting you up as a live target for the tank to test it's cannon...I'd personally strap you to the cinder blocks myself with relish.

[@HKTjohnnywalker]

As we have all seen in the Ukraine war it doesn't matter how good or how many tanks you have, if your battlefield tactics and logistics are not up to modern standards the tank will be nothing more than a sitting duck for an ATMG team, and the Iranians use the similar doctrine as the Russians on the battlefield, due to the fact that they have embraced Russian advisors..

[@thelovertunisia]

No not really. In the Iran Iraq war, Iran proved a fierce opponent due to ingenuity and sheer will to fight which the Russians in Ukraine don't have.

[@HKTjohnnywalker]

@@thelovertunisia if you call human waves of untrained Iranian conscripts a "will to fight" then maybe.. 🤷‍♂️

[@donkthedankee8595]

@@HKTjohnnywalker They weren't conscripts, they were IRGC and basij volunteers. And yes, they even voluntarily cleared minefields by running on them, just to defend our land. Many were killed or maimed in this way. Unlike your coward fighters who surrender and cry when captured.

[@HKTjohnnywalker]

@@donkthedankee8595 sorry bro.. I'm an American.. and we all know what would happen if we went to war with Iran.. There would be an awful lot of Iranians meeting their 72 virgins in paradise.. 😉

[@persianimmortal228]

LoL Iran is master of guerilla wars #1. Who said russians train Iranians??? In this war with Ukraine Russia asked Syrians to help with urban warfare etc , don't talk if u don't know a thing

[@Amen-Magi]

When you upgrade T-72 too match turn it to T-100

[@Del_S]

Wait, it sets off the smoke launchers if it detects a laser? So setting aside it obviously won't be effective in automation against wire guided thermal or radar lock ATGM systems (though I assume a manual method to set them off exists), does this mean someone messing about with a laser pen could cause problems? :P

[@grandayatollah5655]

Laser locks work slightly differently then a laser pen I think. Karrar also has electro optical jammers, which can jam wire guided missiles

[@grandayatollah5655]

@@TheMcspreader I think you're the one who doesn't know how they work. Wire guided missiles require and IR becon on the back of the missile, which can be jammed

[@austinbunyard3284]

It doesn't matter that it has a blow out panel it still has a carousel autoloader

[@blakegoulds8313]

It's quite a leap of faith to assume their armor is as good as the Russians. Nobody who has a tank with a Russian style carousel can be feeling too good about their tanks after what we've seen in Ukraine. 40k dollar ATGM and pop goes the turret.

[@tatotaytoman5934]

10:56 Bluds got the fuel warning light 💀

[@girohuang5196]

Sooner or later.This tank will fight in East Europe 😮

[@psychobeam99]

They can deny it all they want but I dont believe for a minute this was made in house. A very aesthetically pleasing tank all the same though.

[@kakakiri2601]

Try search M2001 it was M-84 more like t90a

[@tankguy5312]

Iranian t90ms

[@mace085]

So dumb question. Lol if they had a 100 T72 why didn’t they just copy it? Why get a license for it?

[@michaeldebellis6171]

It’s a lot easier to produce on license because they get all the blueprints and will learn how to make them/ be given help to spin up the first production line. Not to mention all the possible diplomatic troubles copying without license could cause.

[@albertoamoruso7711]

Having Uralvagonzavod setting up a tank factory in Iran was probably a cheaper alternative to retroengineering captured tanks, building a pre-series production line and starting experimenting with making a few models in order to find and fix technical problems as well as finding the optimal efficiency/cost tradeoff in production.

[@patriotenfield3276]

They did. or maybe the Russians themselves told the Iranians to knock out their (Russian) involvement out ...from the papers.

[@qarmatianwarhorse6028]

@@patriotenfield3276 No. Iran manufactures T72-S under license and using the expertise they developed from two decades of churning them out at home, they branched out and built an entirely new one from scratch. It's already in service but it's merely the first iteration - I'm hearing that around 5 years down the line, they will rework optics and fire control system completely, then add in a new APFSDS into service to replace the "Mango" rounds in use.

[@mihailosaranovic9312]

Because it's really hard to reverse-engineer stuff. You can see the Vehicle A video here. It was a Yugoslav reverse-engineered T-34/85. It was awful because the designers had no idea what materials to use, nor was each tank the same. With production licences, the seller of the licence will provide blueprints, material specifications, advisory personnel and even tooling. Cheaper and easier than to start it all by your own.

[@LIONIQ-foxhound]

the total Iraqi army losses (destroyed and captured) from the t72 tanks didn't exceed 100 in the entire 8 years of war out of 1100 t72 tank... most of Iraqi army t72 fleet was from polish and czech origins with small numbers of Soviet made Ural t72... According to its specifications on paper, the tank is considered excellent and constitutes an important addition to the Iranian ground forces, especially considering Iran’s aging fleet of main battle tanks... the Iranians have extensive experience in manufacturing and using chemical energy anti-armor projectiles or shaped charges (HEAT) with advanced performance data against the zionist entity latest generation main battle tank... this is why we assume that the explosive reactive armor (era) suits the tank is equipped with and the general Iranian reactive armor industry is considered very good... I believe that the tank is equipped with advanced multi-channel sighting systems, but we assume that it is either a license, or reverse engineering, or development based on Chinese off the shelf reconnaissance, surveillance and tracking complexes, and the performances levels that may reach 25 km... the tank suffers from some shortcomings, including but not limited to: 1- the tank’s inherited the same ammo storage of the t64/t72/t90 although it did placed some monitions on separate ammo storage site but the main storage remains in the bottom of the hull which make the tank very vulnerable to anti tank land mines and anti armor explosive devices, and by pairing the land mines and the ammo storage site (alongside the fully packed magazine with ammo and propellent) we can explain the footages emerging from the Ukrainian theaters of operation of huge explosions followed by a catastrophic destructions of the latest generation of the t90ms... 2- the tank is not equipped with a millimeter radar system, this would have given it an advanced organic early warning capabilities, against various air and ground hostilities (various weapons systems and ammunition), and with it would have allowed for improving the levels of the multi layered perception and awareness of the commander,In general, the millimeter radar system provides a visual capabilities superior to most multi-channel electro-optical sighting systems, even with a small or medium-sized antenna, but its drawbacks remain in the possibility of detecting the tank using ground radars from a long distance, in addition to the ability to painting the tank for various munitions especially tank guided ammo that riding that radar wave, the radar system could have been linked to the Iranian Integrated air defense network as one of their forefront subcomponents... 3-the tank is not equipped with an auxiliary multi-channel sighting device mounted on a retracted mast this will allow the tank commander to scouting and monitoring the battle field organically from a higher position and thus from longer distance, this capability could be issued to tank platoon commander... Our best Wishes to the Islamic Republic Of Iran...

[@bryanwozniak8861]

Javelin's snake 😋😋

[@Adjwjkdk]

We take javelin's be ready for iranian copy

[@omiid8393]

❤️🇮🇷💪💪💪

[@OshinAttari]

K Tank Is Made on T-72 K MBT is Way Better than Russian T-90

[@kazimkorkmaz]

Akıllı bir çözüm

[@nikola7207]

Can you do serbian m-84as1/2?

[@jacksonteller1337]

A cheaper upgrade of the T-72 than the T-90 is. And it will be about as effective as it is in Ukraine. Prepare for the launch of the turret 🤣🤣🤣

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

It's about the doctrine and not about the tanks. The Russian tank crews could be driving the Armata or the Abrams and would still be losing but a T-72 in the right crew's hands is still deadly . Abrams tanks being destroyed in Iraq and Yemen prove my point.

[@jacksonteller1337]

@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 read on lousy training and downgraded versions not a good combination in combat. There are records of US version of the A1 getting stuck in Iraq and peppered from all sides by Iraqi troops and tanks. They survived without major damage while the export version like i said read. But like your name suggests the sun shines out of the USSRs arse and they produced only good things 🤣🤣🤣

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

@@jacksonteller1337 well, the constant use of the emojis suggest a lack of understanding and intelligence so I'm not going to talk further about your comment. My point literally agrees with what you said. The export or import versions make no difference if you stick incompetent crews in them,

[@jacksonteller1337]

@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 you are the only one on here that doesn't understand. And mirroring your state of mind just tells me you are most likely another Russian with an IQ lower than my boot size. Enjoy your school junior you might actually learn something eventually come back when you have basic reading level or enjoy spending time in Ukraine using the Mosin Nagant as they are mobilising in December again.

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Would love to see Iran's new tank get the Iraqi T-72 treatment, Hellfires, Mavericks, JDAM's and Abrams APFSDS.

[@dont259]

Automatically launch smoke grenades... Yeah... totally won't mess up it's own crew, too

[@VerdeMorte]

Perfect for warcrimes

[@patriotenfield3276]

*WHAT WARCRIMES*

[@A_Nice_Guy.]

This isn't the M1 Abrams

[@revengeproductions9697]

iran hasn't committed any

[@JohnSmith-fd5un]

@@revengeproductions9697 Let's not be silly here. Iran is not alone, we all are responsible, every single country will pay in the end.

[@revengeproductions9697]

@@JohnSmith-fd5un im not against iran trolling a bit its been a few hundred years since our last proper war crime

[@mode4148]

Iran is a funny country

[@امیررضاصادقی-ع9ف]

A country under more than 1700 different sanctions more than any other country

[@adamkowalski1968]

This tank does not exist, they bought one T 90 MS from Russia and there is always only one tank in the movies.

[@imdamachinegun]

T90M is better