In an announcement marking Nationwide Defence Trade Day, Iran’s defence ministry mentioned the nation’s defence business had been born from menace however had not been halted by it. “Each stress and each sanction made the need and perception in counting on home capability clearer, and each battlefield opened a brand new alternative for the nation’s specialists,” it mentioned.
The assertion praised the late Chief of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for designing and engineering the trail of defence self-reliance, primarily based on belief within the folks, particularly younger Iranian scientists, and the event and indigenisation of information and expertise.
It paid tribute to commanders and specialists martyred alongside this path, together with Mostafa Chamran and Aziz Nasirzadeh, in addition to a whole bunch of defence ministry personnel martyred within the 12-day conflict and the Ramadan conflict.
“The latest imposed wars had been the actual subject of testing the nation’s defensive capabilities,” the assertion mentioned. What had been constructed over years of Iranian experience was put to make use of and, alongside the operational capacities of the armed forces and the Iranian nation, defeated a big a part of the enemy’s calculations and targets, confounding them.
“On the identical time, these wars weren’t solely a subject of confrontation; they had been a chance to extra exactly recognise capabilities, reveal new wants and map the long run path. We have now realized by no means to cease,” the ministry mentioned, including that the latest conflict was now “the previous.”
“With out delight or concern, we should constantly renew, recreate and replace the defence business in accordance with these findings and classes,” it mentioned.
The ministry mentioned the idea of a “defence industrial revolution” primarily based on a nationwide defence participation mannequin was not restricted to constructing a brand new product, however reworked methods of pondering, design, manufacturing, expertise administration, the usage of knowledge-based capacities, good methods and the velocity of changing data into defensive energy.
“The expertise of the latest wars confirmed that the stronger the bond between the nation and the armed forces, the better the nation’s capability to confront threats and overcome crises,” the assertion mentioned.
The ministry mentioned its clear mission was to show battlefield expertise into data, data into expertise, and expertise into future defensive energy, below the strategic command of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.
MNA