Iran: August 11, 2001

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Iran announced a successful test of a domestically designed and built transport helicopter. What Iran has been doing is reverse engineering (with some modifications) foreign vehicles and weapons for local production. The results are often more expensive than buying abroad, but with the US embargo, purchase overseas is very difficult.

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