Key facts
- Type
- Main battle tank
- Place of origin
- Iran
- Used by
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Designer
- Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran Ground Force
- Designed
- 1993 – Zulfiqar-1 2012 – Zulfiqar-3
- Manufacturer
- Shahid Kolah Dooz Industrial Complex
- Produced
- 1996–present
- Number span no built
- ~400 Zulfiqar-1 in 2022 750 Zulfiqar-3
- Variants
- Zulfiqar 1, Zulfiqar 2, Zulfiqar 3
- Mass
- 52 tonnes
- Length
- 9.20 m (30 ft 2 in)
- Width
- 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
- Height
- 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in)
- Armor
- composite armour
- Main armament
- 2A46 125 mm gun
- Secondary armament
- 12.7 mm and 7.62 mm machine guns
- Engine
- 12-cyl. diesel, Zulfiqar 1: 780 hp (630 kW) Zulfiqar 3: AVDS-1790 1000 hp
- Power weight
- 21.7 hp/ton (Zulfiqar 1),17.85 hp/ton (zulfiqar 3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Zulfiqar (Persian: ذوالفقار) is an Iranian main battle tank, conceived by Brigadier General Mir-Younes Masoumzadeh, deputy ground force commander for research and self-sufficiency of the armed forces. It is named after Zulfiqar, the legendary sword of Ali, the first imam. It's also known as Zolfaqar.
The test prototypes of the tank were evaluated in 1993. Six semi-industrial prototypes of the tank were produced and tested in 1997.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zulfiqar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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