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TIGERCAT SAM DEPLOYMENTS AT ESFAHAN THERMAL POWER PLANT, STEEL PLANT, IRAN
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CIA-RDP81T00618R000100090001-9
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December 23, 2009
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Publication Date:
May 1, 1981
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REPORT
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Tigercat SAM Deployments at
Esfahan Thermal Power Plant,
Steel Plant, Iran (TSR).
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TIGERCAT SAM DEPLOYMENTS AT
ESFAHAN THERMAL POWER PLANT, STEEL PLANT, IRAN (TSR)
1. (TSR) The Tigercat SAM system was observed deployed near Esfahan, Iran,
This was the first confirmed observation of the Tigercat in Iran in nearly ten
years. Three Tigercat SAM deployments, each consisting of a launcher trailer with a full comple-
ment of three missiles and a control director trailer, were around the northwest end of the Esfahan
Thermal Power Plant, Steel Plant 19 nautical miles southwest of Esfahan (Figure
1). Four ZU-23 antiaircraft guns supplied additional air defense for the plant, which is probably
the sole steel production plant remaining in operation in Iran since early in the Iran/Iraq conflict
when extensive damage was inflicted on the Ahvaz Steel Plant
2. (TSR) The Tigercat SAM system was known to have been in the Iranian inventory in the
early 1970s, but the system's location in the intervening years was unknown. A possible Tigercat
SAM deployment was tentatively identified in south-central Esfahan in late May 1980.
3. (TSR) Compact and mobile, the Tigercat is a British close-range tactical guided missile,
1.48 meters in length, with a high-explosive warhead.' A firing unit (Figure 2) consists of a
control /director trailer, a launcher trailer with three missiles (Figure 3), and two towing vehicles.
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1. Jane's Weapons Systems. 1980- 1981, 1 Ith ed (UNCLASSIFIED)
(S) Comments and queries regarding this report are welcome. They may be directed to
World Forces Division, Imagery Exploitation Group, NPIC,
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FIGURE 3. TIGERCAT LAUNCHER WITH MISSILES. Photograph taken from Jane's Weapons
Systems, 1976 (UNCLASSIFIED(
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