Here's The Iran's Modern Karrar Main Battle Tank | Ahead Towards Modernization

Here’s The Iran’s Modern Karrar Main Battle Tank | Ahead Towards Modernization

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The Karrar (English: Striker) is Iran’s latest Main Battle Tank (MBT). It is one of the first produced entirely by Iran and was first unveiled in 2016 and officially entered active service in 2020. It is produced on the basis of the Soviet T-72 and its external shape is inspired by the most modern Russian T-90 export version, the T-90MS ‘Tagil’. In spite of this, Iran denies any Russian involvement in the vehicle’s development.

The Karrar is a cheap modernization for Iran’s obsolete T-72 fleet meant to keep them competitive with small modifications to the production line.

The Karrar, designed by the Organization of Defense Industries of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was first unveiled in August 2016. On March 12th, 2017, it was announced by Iranian Defense Minister, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, that an assembly line for the Karrar would soon be built at the Bani Hashim Defense Industrial Complex. There, production of 800 new tanks would begin in 2018.

The prototype was presented to the public in Teheran and had a distinctive two-tone black and light gray camouflage and a sheet-metal armor sleeve to protect the gun barrel.

Apart from these features, the Karrar prototype differed from the regular Karrar in the arrangement of Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) bricks on the turret, the arrangement of the smoke launchers, and the different remote controlled station on the turret.

The Karrar has a hexagonal welded turret, with the tank commander on the right side, with a cupola, and the gunner on the left side, with a hatch.

The commander’s cupola has eight periscopes for a 360° view and an independent stabilized periscope connected to the anti-aircraft gun. The periscopes have a day/night infrared camera, giving the commander the possibility to survey the battlefield in any lighting and weather conditions.

The gunner has a frontal optic with day and night cameras on the left side of the turret and a smaller auxiliary optic in front of his hatch. The gunner’s sight has two small doors that can be closed to protect it from bullets, dust, and splinters.

The gunner’s hatch has a small round door that can be opened, as on the Russian T-90s, for more ventilation in desert operations or to mount a snorkel kit. This suggests that the Karrar also has the ability to mount a snorkel kit to cross some bodies of water.

The gunner’s sight also has a searchlight on the right side that can be used during night operations.

The commander’s periscope and the gunner’s sight are connected to the tank’s Fire Control System (FCS), which, together with other subsystems, such as a turret-mounted anemometer and a laser rangefinder (mounted on top of the gun), calculates the firing calculation needed to hit a target with maximum accuracy, whether stationary or moving, during day or night.

According to Iranian General Massoud Zavarei, who is in charge of the Army Ground Force Organization that works on military research and self-sufficiency of the Iranian military industry, this armor is entirely produced in Iran and has been developed without the help of other nations.

Not much can be said certainly about the effective thickness of the armor. If the materials of the composite armor and of the Explosive Reactive Armor are somewhat comparable to those of the Russian T-90 equipped with a welded turret, the Karrar would have a protection of up to 1,150-1,350 mm on the front of the turret and up to 800-830 mm on the front of the hull against High-Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) projectiles. This theoretical thickness also changes according to the type of projectile, reaching a maximum of 950 mm on the turret and 750 mm on the hull against Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilized (APDSFS) projectiles.

After witnessing the obsolescence of the early versions of the T-72 in the Middle East conflicts, the Republic of Iran has decided to upgrade its T-72 fleet in an inexpensive way. The Karrar keeps the T-72 hull almost unchanged, but is equipped with a new turret, Fire Control System and armor. It is a simple way to keep the T-72 operatives for a long period of time.

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