Shahryar Pasandideh
@shahpas • 5,223 subscribers
🇨🇦 Military and technology analyst. Fellow @BGCCIH. PhD from @GWtweets. Previously @BelferCenter @UofT. Media: send a DM
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🇨🇳🇮🇷🇴🇲🇹🇼 This may be the first documented attack against the type of large gantry crane used to load and unload shipping containers from container ships. I draw attention to this development with reference to China and Taiwan because some self-described experts will run Monte Carlo simulations on the potential effectiveness of Chinese ballistic missile attacks against Taiwan's port cranes instead of putting a "problem-solving hat" on to identify more practical ways of taking port cranes out of operation in the manner that Iran appears to have done.
Shahryar Pasandideh124,014 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
It is worth noting that an Iranian Artesh (not IRGC) Arash strike drone crashed in Kazakhstan during the June 2025 Iran-Israel War, in what was very likely to have been a navigational error due to technical and/or human error. The situation in Azerbaijan is, therefore, TBD.
Shahryar Pasandideh67,636 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
This video appears to show a PLAGF Z-10 attack helicopter practicing the approach and landing sequence involved in using merchant ships as a forward arming and refuelling point. The PLAGF operates most of the PLA's attack helicopters. Note that the PLAAF's Airborne Corps also...
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🇮🇷🇮🇶🇭🇺🇺🇸 This video shows Fath-360 (i.e., BM-120) short-range ballistic missile launches against reported targets in the Erbil area. The audio is very interesting, given how someone asks whether they are to launch one missile at a time or a full salvo of four (the launcher in question, carrying four such missiles, is the specimen in image 4). Note that this is likely an IRGC Ground Force unit.
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A new video of IRGC strike drone and ~cruise missile launches. Included are the Hadid-110 associated with the IRGC Ground Force (not the IRGC Aerospace Force), Shahed-136, and, notably, some of the first documentation of Shahed-107 use in this war. Note large-scale Hadid launches
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🇮🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸 I can't speak to the veracity or timing of this video, but scenes like this—the mass launch of apparent Tamir/Iron Dome interceptors against rockets reportedly launched from Lebanon—are what Iran and Hizballah likely want to see and induce. Tamir stocks are not infinite, and Iran benefits from having Iron Dome batteries "pinned" in northern Israel, with the ELM-2084 radars facing north—not ~northeast. When tied up intercepting inexpensive and plentiful unguided artillery rockets launched from Lebanon—and Hizballah's strike drones—Iron Dome batteries cannot be positioned to undertake low-probability, short-range, and rather desperate/last-ditch interception attempts against long-range Iranian ballistic missiles in other parts of Israel.
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🇮🇷 This video offers what may be the first glimpse into Qaem-118 launch operations. The Qaem-118 (image 1) is a turbojet-powered surface-to-air missile that, to put it mildly, heavily emulates the American Coyote Block 2 (image 2). This is one of several Iranian anti-aircraft interceptors optimized for use against uncrewed aircraft of various types, including higher-flying designs such as the American MQ-9 Reaper. The Qaem-118 was, IIRC, first unveiled in February 2025 at the same exhibition covered in the quoted post. 1/
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🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸 A diverse array of Iranian strike munitions can be seen in this video, which reportedly shows IRGC forces attacking American forces in Kuwait. Included: - Paveh family cruise missiles - A (to my knowledge) previously unseen Iranian strike drone in a tractor configuration with a cruciform/X-tail. The IRGC did, however, present a tractor configuration strike drone with a V-tail last year. TBD. - Guided heavy artillery rockets/~short-range ballistic missiles - Arash family strike drones, which have notably been associated with the Artesh, not the IRGC, thus far. TBD.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 The IDF has released a video that shows the interception of a Hizballah Shahed-136. 1/
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