{"id":28760,"date":"2025-02-27T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-unveils-homegrown-masaf-rifle\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:51:10","slug":"iran-unveils-homegrown-masaf-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-unveils-homegrown-masaf-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran unveils homegrown Masaf rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5400326.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Chief of Staff and Deputy Coordinator of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, announced that the Masaf rifle, an indigenously developed firearm, has now become the official standard-issue weapon of the Iranian Army\u2019s Ground Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of a new equipment induction ceremony, Sayyari noted that in 1974, the G3 rifle replaced the M1 Garand as the Army\u2019s official firearm, a standard that lasted 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the efforts of the Army\u2019s Ground Forces Command, we have successfully developed a weapon superior to the G3. The Masaf rifle, entirely designed and manufactured in Iran, is now the standard firearm for our ground forces,\u201d Sayyari stated.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/6392589<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/229000\/Iran-unveils-homegrown-Masaf-rifle\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Chief of Staff and Deputy Coordinator of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, announced that the Masaf rifle, an indigenously developed firearm, has now become the official standard-issue weapon of the Iranian Army\u2019s Ground Forces. Speaking on the sidelines of a new equipment induction ceremony, Sayyari noted that in 1974, the G3 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}