Saturday, September 26, 2009

UAVs of Iran

UAVs of Iran
***Updated - February 5th 2011***

5 comments:

  1. Hi Ayyash

    Good job for gathering all infromation. I just wanna add that before 2009 parade and as far as I know the commender of armed forces if I am correct said that we build a squadron of saeqeh not we will show them all.

    About stealth UCAV, I beleive that we will see sth soon

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  2. Hi Ayyash,
    Are Iraninan UAVs capable of being armed with missiles or rockets? If so,please elaborate.

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  3. Indeed they are, actually, the earliest versions of the Mohajer were armed with RPG's

    Here's a view of it, you can see the RPG's under the wing:
    http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9438/pic12138710297321.jpg


    Recently we haven't seen anything like this, so i'd say there is no 'regular' doctrine of arming UAV's.

    However i should also point out that the Ababil has "suicide" capability, which is basically just packing it full of explosives and using it as a cruise missile. There was quite some fear that Hezbollah would use this strategy actually.

    Recently, Iran announced the testing of a stealth UAV which has bombing capability, while this is still far from production, i'd give some credit to this statement since its more then just a vague pronouncement of a stealth aircraft, rather its very specific. They said they were scale testing a stealth UAV named 'flatfish'.

    -Ayyash

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  4. Hi ayash

    I am perspolis. They showed Karar.

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  5. I found an interesting link showing UAV’s made by Iranian students at the nasr toosi university , i thought you'd might be interested in viewing them :

    http://www.yjcphotos.ir/portal/ImageGroup.aspx?GroupID=2294

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