'Iranian weapon ends Apache copters' air supremacy'

Wed, 03 Feb 2010  |  PressTV

A senior Iranian military official says Iran has developed a special weapon that can bring down Apache helicopters.

 

Col. Nasser Arab-Beigi, the director of the self-sufficiency organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), told the Fars news agency on Tuesday that the “special weapon” can also target advanced tanks.

“The enemy should not assume that if it attacks Iran, its Apache helicopters will perform as satisfactorily as they do in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Arab-Beigi stated.

He noted that the new weapon will put an end to the battlefield supremacy of the United States' Apache helicopters.

 

He noted that the IRGC self-sufficiency organization has focused its research on the enemies' threats, adding that the organization closely studies the enemies' capabilities and singles out those that could be a threat to Iran.

 

Nasser-Beigi said that the organization then establishes research teams to develop the weapons necessary to fend off the threats.