The Iranian weapons in period of Sassanid

Ardeshir the first, the founder of Sasani kingdom, having overthrowing the Molouk altavayef kingdom-Ashkani kingdom- set out to raise a powerful army. An army that in a few years later was capable of achieving remarkable successes in confronting Iranian’s kingdom enemies with the help of assaulting and defending weaponries. His substitutes also in both assaulting and defending wars were able to defeat the enemies based on different war situations with the help of various weapons. For instance in confrontations with the Romans who had assaulted the Iranians borders and had retreated to their castles to defend their achievements, the Iranians had mostly usually surmounted the Romans making use of catapults and portcullis-knockers to go through their hindrances. Also, Iranians had achieved significant successes over the Turkish army and the eastern desert-dwellers people. These successes originated from different factors such as enough military forces, various excerpts from former Iranians governments and other nations’ weaponry system, creativity in producing weapons, suitable workshops for producing weapons, powerful army maneuver, powerful domestic weaponry system and powerful horseback riding forces. The author of the present study seeks to introduce the weaponry system of the Sasani kingdom and their use of this armament in the battlefields. It has been attempted to apply accurate sources of the Sasanians’ period in order to gather terse and precise information.