The head of Russia's air force, General Viktor Bondarev, got an interesting present during his visit to Iran - an Iranian copy of a US spy drone ScanEagle. The drone represents "the technical capabilities of the Islamic Iran," according to The Guardian.
The Yasseer drone was provided to Russia on
the sidelines of a meeting in Tehran between Bondarev and Farzad
Esmayeeli, the air defense commander of Khatam al-Anbia, the
Revolutionary Guards' military and industrial base.
"The drone built by the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards is a symbol of the technical capabilities of the Islamic Iran and today we presented a real model of it as a gift to Russian air force … and the Russian people," Esmayeeli said after meeting.
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Bondarev was
handed surveillance footage of "foreign forces in the Persian Gulf,"
Sepahnews, the official site of the elite Revolutionary Guards,
reported. In September, Iran's army unveiled the Yasseer
drone, which can fly for eight hours with a range of 200 kilometres
(124 miles) and reach an altitude of 4,500 metres (15,000 feet).
It
resembles the US ScanEagle, a surveillance drone that Iran claimed to
have captured in late 2012. Iran claimed to have brought it down
electronically but the US said the aircraft had merely malfunctioned.
Iran launches mass-production of drones - media
Iran
launched the mass-production of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on
US technology, reported Press TV quotong the Public Relations Office of
the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Iranian indigenous
drone is called Shahed (Witness) 129. Is a combat UAV capable of
carrying eight bombs or domestically-manufactured Sadid missiles at the
same time, and is designed to hit stationary and mobile targets alike.
Shahed
(Witness) 129 has an effective operational radius of 1,700 km in terms
of precision targeting, flight endurance of 24 hours on a single fuel
run and a flight ceiling of 24,000 feet. It has a monitoring capability
of 200 km radius.
The
technology to design and develop these types of drones had been in US
control, but Iran managed to break the monopoly and develop the know-how
to build such aircraft, reported IRGC.
Brigadier
General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division,
said that the drone can now safeguard the country’s frontiers:
"Shahed 129 can easily track and identify bandits, terrorists and drug smugglers as well as anyone targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s sustainable security and can fire missiles at them upon orders from commanders.”Iran’s IRGC unveiled the Shahed drone in September 2012.
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