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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Photo/Video: Iran launches mass-production of drones, sends copy to Russia.



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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