{"id":16431,"date":"2016-06-18T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16431"},"modified":"2016-06-18T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:30:45","slug":"know-your-weapons-the-toophan-the-iranian-tow-missile-knockoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/18\/know-your-weapons-the-toophan-the-iranian-tow-missile-knockoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: The “Toophan”; The Iranian TOW Missile Knockoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Toophan\"<\/p>\n

The CIA program to supply Arab rebels in Syria has made TOW anti-tank guided missiles a nearly ubiquitous sight in media coming from the conflict. But the United States might not be the only country waging a covert war with TOW (or TOW-like) missiles in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Iranian reverse-engineered TOW anti-tank guided missiles, dubbed \u201cToophan,\u201d have been been sighted headed toward Yemen with additional suspected appearances in Iraq and Syria\u200a\u2014\u200aall in the hands of Tehran\u2019s allies and proxy groups.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s production of reverse-engineered TOW missiles is no great secret. In official news outlets<\/a>, documentaries<\/a> and on Iran\u2019s official arms export website<\/a>, the Islamic Republic has touted its production of a series of different Toophan missiles derived from TOW variants.<\/p>\n

It has produced at least a handful of different Toophan models, including the Toophan 1 through 3. According to Armament Research Services, the three systems appear to copy<\/a> the TOW BGM-71A, BGM-71C and BGM-71F missiles. Iran makes two other variants, dubbed the Toophan-5 and Qaem.<\/p>\n

In addition to the basic infantry launch platform, Iran has equipped some of its vehicles to fire the missiles. The basic Safir 4×4 tactical vehicle often appears in military parades<\/a> equipped with a Toophan launcher.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s unhelpfully-named Toufan-2<\/a> helicopter, based on the Bell Sea Cobra, also appears able to fire Toophan anti-tank missiles.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CIA program to supply Arab rebels in Syria has made TOW anti-tank guided missiles a nearly ubiquitous sight in media coming from the conflict. But the United States might not be the only country waging a covert war with TOW (or TOW-like) missiles in the Middle East. Iranian reverse-engineered TOW anti-tank guided missiles, dubbed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2450,7683,3172,2417,2413,2726,6135,1286,24],"tags":[1751,3077,12337,12338,12339],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}