Iranian OOB Army/Fleet/Air Force DONE!

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Iran OOB October 1940 (from Carl Nafziger)

Airforce:

• 1 Hurricane (unservicable)
• 24 Furies
• 63 Audax
• 34 Hinds
• 3 Oxfords
• 9 Curtis P40 (Tomahawks) in crates at Ahwaz
• 25 Rearward Cloudstar Trainers

Iranian Army
Ahwaz-Abadan-Khurramshahr Area

• 1st Infantry Regiment (1st Division)
• 2nd Infantry Regiment (1st Division)
• 11th Infantry Regiment (15th Division)
• 8 Light Tanks (armed with machineguns)
• 8 Medium Tanks (armed with 37mm & LMGs)
• 10 Armored Cars (armed with 37mm & 1 LMG)

Susangard

• Det/1st Infantry Regiment
• Det/2nd Infantry Regiment
• Det/11th Infantry Regiment

Qsar

• 4 Aircraft
• 10 Armored Cars
• 70 Motor Cars
• 60 Requisitioned Trucks
• 600 Horses
• 10 Guns
• 30th Infantry Regiment (6th Division)

Dizful:

• 19th Infantry Regiment (6th Division)

Shush

• 9th Cavarly Regiment (6th Division)

30 Miles West of Hawizeh:

• Unknown detachment, probably 2,000 men of 6th Division

Qsbat:

• 1 Infantry Company (6th Division)
• 2 Artillery Batteries (6th Division)
• Transport (6th Division)

Abadan

• 11th Infantry Regiment (6th Division)
• 13th Infantry Regiment (6th Division)
• Gendarmerie (6th Division)

Khurramshahr

• 1 Infantry Company (less 60 men at Manyohi)

Khosroabad

• 1 Pack Battery

Between Kurramshahr and Abadan:

• Sloop Palang
• Sloop Babr
• Gunboat Karkas
• Gunboat Simorg
• Gunboat Shahrukh

About to Arrive in Area:

• 1/2 Artillery Regiment (2nd Division)
• 105mm Skoda guns (short)

Senneh-Kermanshah Area
Senneh

• Headquartersw, 5th Kurdistan Division
• 6th Artillery Regiment (Mixed)
• 22nd Muzaffar Infantry Regiment
• 8th (I) Battalion Gendarmerie
• W/T Section

Sakriz

• 14th Cavarly Regiment
• 6th (I) Battalion Gendarmerie

Baneh

• 24th Infantry Regiment

Merivan:

• 23rd Infantry Regiment

Nausud

• 7th (I) Battalion Gendarmerie

Kermanshah:

• Headquarters, 12th (Kermanshah) Division
• 23rd Cavalry Regiment
• 38th Infantry Regiment

Qasr-i-Shirin & Naft-i-Shah

• 14th Artillery Regiment (mixed)
• 39th Infantry Regiment (1 bn detached)

Pusht-i-Koh:

• 39th Infantry Regiment (1 bn)
• 5th Gendarmerie Regiment

Throughtout Area:

• 8th Engineer Battalion

Reinforcements en route from Isfahan:

• 37th Infantry Regiment (13th Division)
• 38th Artillery General Purpose

Reinforcements enroute from Teheran:
from 1st Division:

• 20th Infantry Regiment
• 1st Artillery Regiment (105mm shor
• t Skoda)
• Mountain Artillery Batteries

from 2nd Division:

• 6th Infantry Regiment
• 21st Infantry Regiment
• 1st Artillery Regiment (105mm short Skoda)
• Mountain Artillery Batteries

Iranian Artillery:

12 Batteries - 105mm Skoda (short)
18 Batteries - 105mm Skoda (long)
39 Batteries - Bofors 75mm Mountain guns
6 1/2 Batteries - Schneider 75mm guns
4 Batteries - Schneider 75mm guns
2 Batteries - Aboukoff 75mm guns
1 Battery - British guns
11 1/2 Batteries 75mm Bofors AA guns
Each regiment had 3 mountain batteries and 1 field battery.
6 AA batteries were part of the mechanized brigade
3 AA batteries were part of the 6th Khuzistan Division (2 were in storage, not in use)

Organization of Iranian Infantry Regiment:

Headquarters:

Headquarter's Company​

• Pioneers
• Artificiers
• Clerks
• Stretcher Bearers

Signal & Close Support Company

1 Anti - tank Platoon (6 - 37mm AT guns)
1 Signal Platoon
1 Mortar Platoon (3 sections, each with 2 Mortars) (81 men)​

3 Battalions

3 Infantry Companies, each with

3 Platoons, each with

1st Section

• 8 (ORs)
• 2 Rifle Bombers
• 5 Riflemen

2nd Section

• Light Machine Guns

3rd Section

• Rifles

4th Section

• Light Machine Guns

5th Section

• Rifles

1 Machine Gun Company

3 Platoons, each with

2 Brno Machine Guns​

Total Strength 68 officers, 2,070 men, 18 HMGs, 54 LMGs, 6 mortars, 6 37mm AT guns.

Organization of Iranian Cavalry Regiment:

Army had a total of 22 regiments of horse and 3 of camels. The total strength was 720 of all ranks.

Headquarters
Signal Troop
1st Saber Squadron, with

4 Troops, with

• 2 Saber Sections
• 1 Light Automatic Weapon Section (4 automatics)

2nd Saber Squadron, with

4 Troops, with​

• 2 Saber Sections
• 1 Light Automatic Weapon Section (4 automatics)

3rd Saber Squadron, with

4 Troops, with​

• 2 Saber Sections
• 1 Light Automatic Weapon Section (4 automatics)

4th Saber Squadron, with

4 Troops, with​

• 2 Saber Sections
• 1 Light Automatic Weapon Section (4 automatics)

Machine Gun Squadron (8 Machine Guns)

Mechanized Brigade:

Headquarters

• 4 staff cars
• 1 motorcycle section (16 motorcycles)

1st Regiment (Anti - Aircraft)

• 1 Battery (16 15mm Besa MGs on trucks)
• 6 Batteries (75mm Bofors drawn by Marmon - Harrington Tractors)

2nd Regiment (armored fighting vehicles)

• 1 Light Tank Batalion (50 Czecho - Moravska 3 1/2 ton tanks armed with 1 HMG & 1 LMG
• 1 Medium Tank Battalion (50 Czecho - Moravska 7 1/2 ton tanks armed with 1 37mm AT gun & 2 HMGs)
• 1 Armored Car Battalion (19 Marmon Harrington (4 wheel drive) & 14 Marmon Harrington (6 wheel drive) armored cars, each with 1 - 37mm gun & 2 HMGs
• 4 Rolls Royce Armored Cars

3rd Regiment (mechanized Infantry)

• 50 armored trucks, each with a commander, 2 drivers & 20 infantry
• 50 Belgian Motorcycles to with 1 Brno machine gun each Artillery Regiment
• 6 Batteries (4 - 105mm Skoda (long) guns)

Iran OOB November 1941

Active Personnel: 125.000 men
Officers: 1 507 (mainly French trained)
30 872 NCOs

Division Setup:

• 3 Infantry brigades
• 2-3 cavalry brigades
• 2 Artillery Batteries
• 1 music platoon
• 1 engineer unit
• 1 medicine platoon

9 mixed divisions garrisoned at:

• 3rd Tabriz
• 4th Rezeiyeh
• 5th Kurdistan
• 6th Ahvaz
• 9th Meshed
• 10th Gorgan
• 11th Rasht
• 12th Kermanshah
• 13th Isfahan
• 15th Ardabil
• 17th Khovey

The armed police force fielded seven independent mixed regiments and 15 mixed battalions that formed a corps for internal and frontier security duties.

• 5 independent brigades.
• 1 independent mechanized brigade: made up of
• 1 anti-aircraft regiments
• 1 tank regiment,
• 1 mechanized infantry regiments came into being
• 1 heavy artillery regiment
• 1 independent infantry regiment,
• 1 heavy artillery regiment,
• 1 anti-aircraft battalion,
• armed police force
• 7 independent mixed regiments
• 15 mixed battalions

Artillery:
874 older cannons
350 modern cannons (mainly light and medium calibers – some motorized)

• 12 batteries of 100mm Skoda M14 (short barrel) howitzers (Total=48 )
• 18 batteries 100mm Skoda M30 howitzers (long barrel) (Total=72)
• 39 batteries 75mm Bofors M1934 mountain guns (Total= 156) – mountain guns carried by pack mules
• 10 1/2 batteries 75mm Schneider M1909 mountain guns (Total=42) – statistics debated – suggested at lesser (6 1/2 batteries) – mountain guns carried by pack mules
• 4 Batteries 75mm Schneider Model 1919 (Total=16)
• 2 batteries 75mm Aboukoff (Russian) (Total=8)
• Possibly 4 batteries of 105mm Skoda M35 towed by Praga tractors for coastal defense along the Caspian (Possible Total=16)
• 11 1/2 batteries 75mm M1929 anti-aircraft guns towed by Marmon Herrington vehicles – more artillery pieces had been on order but not delivered after 1939 (Total=46) – Note: Six of the anti-aircraft batteries were part of the mechanized brigade with three anti-aircraft batteries a part of the 6th Khuzestan Division (two of these were in storage or reserve however).
• 1 battery of unknown British guns (possibly 18-Pounders) (Total=4)

Each regiment possessed three mountain batteries and one field battery. Excepting the mountain guns that were carried by pack mules, the artillery of the mechanized brigade was transported by Marmon Herrington vehicles. The rest of the artillery was drawn by horses.

Vehicles:
200-300 tanks from Czechoslovakia and Germany [CKD-Skoda AH-IV ; CKD TNH (Pz 38)]



Planes:
122 outdated Hawker series combat aircraft ( 63 Audax, 34 Hind and 24 Fury) [only 50 fit for combat]
160 trainers, transport, etc.
1000 trained personnel
Air Bases in: Tehran (Gila Murgha - huge base), Ahvaz, Tabriz, Abadan (small base) and Mashad

Adition:

• 10 Curtis P40 (Tomahawk) in crates at Ahvaz airbase (only of these was assembled prior to August 25, 1941 Anglo-Russian invasion – this was flown to Iraq by an American mechanic for the aircraft)
• 3 Oxford
• 1 (unserviceable) Hurricane
• 25 Rearward Cloudstar Trainers

Navy:

Rear Admiral: Gholamali Bayandor

Persian Gulf Group:
Headquarters: Khurramshar

Babr: 950 tons; 62.4m/9m/3.1m; 15 knots; 4*102mm - frigade/patrol sloop
Palang: 950 tons; 62.4m/9m/3.1m; 15 knots; 4*102mm - frigade/patrol sloop
Shahbaaz: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat
Sharakh: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat
Karkas: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat
Simorgh: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat
Gilan: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Azerbaijan: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Mazandaran: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Niroo: 226 tons; - tug boat



Caspain Sea Group:
Headquarters: Bandar Pahlavi

Babolsar: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Gorgan: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch Captain Hasan Mo'azez
Sefindrende: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Anzali: 30 tons; - patrol motor launch
Ramsar: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat Captain Waszgen Babakhanian
Nowshahr: 331 tons; 51.8m/6.7m/1.8m; 15 knots; 2*76mm, 2*37mm - destroyer/gun boat
Nahrang: stores ship
Shaan: 170 tons; - minesweeper
Shahsavar: 350 tons; - royal yacht

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Reserved

 

[safe-keeper]

Why doesn't the HOI4 division designer allow for music units ?

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Hehe, we can simulate music units in HoI4 for Iran with the Signal Company

 

[Cardus]

Good work! Why you don't post in the Fox and Lion mod your OOB according that mod style and format?

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Because I don't know the mod

 

[mdw1985]

Good work! Why you don't post in the Fox and Lion mod your OOB according that mod style and format?

I love that mod. Makes only sense if you play italy tho

 

[Zbyszk0]

What's the date on this OOB?

 

[keynes2.0]

Why doesn't the HOI4 division designer allow for music units ?

Because Bards are OP.

 

[safe-keeper]

Because Bards are OP.

Careful, you might set off a heated six page discussion aboard the efficacy of some musical instrument.

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

What's the date on this OOB?

November 1941

 

[Goodis]

Where did you even get all this detailed info? HoI3?

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

HoI3? No. I got a lot of informations from the axis history forum, books about iranian army history and the method.tripod site.

Careful, you might set off a heated six page discussion aboard the efficacy of some musical instrument.

Very unlikely.

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Any request for another nation oob research?

 

[Goodis]

Any request for another nation oob research?

Yes please please could you do Sweden and Turkey ? I would LOVE to see them both. And thanks for putting in all the work for this accurate information.

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Sure thing

 

[FOARP]

Any request for another nation oob research?

Mexico might be cool to look at. Argentina and Colombia as well.

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Yeah, you need it for your mod, right. Sure, let me do Turkey and Sweden first

 

[Paglia]

Nice work on Persia. Allowed me to doublecheck my own work in my MOD. Seemed liked I got the same sources as you. It's good to know I was not off the track. The names you listed (ex.: 3rd Tabriz), are they the name of the units or those of the area where they were stationned ?

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

Hi thanks As far as I know they are the name of the units. When they where stationed in other areas they still kept the name like 3rd Tabriz...