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Feb 21, 2023 · The Iranian defense ministry has unveiled a plan to turn the country’s Qaher stealth fighter into an unmanned warplane. The televised announcement was made by Brigadier General Afshin Khajefard, saying the aircraft has reached full technological maturity.
Apr 19, 2024 · The DIA report says both the SA-20c and the SA-5 are housed at Isfahan. Iran has also produced its own air defense systems, ... both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on ...
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The managing director of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO), a subsidiary of the Defense Ministry, announced in a televised interview on 18 February 2023 that the fighter had reached technical maturity but would be reworked and fielded as an unmanned drone rather than a manned aircraft to adapt it to the requirements of Iranian ...
Iran has become a global drone powerhouse as countries around the world copy its technology. Russia has become increasingly reliant on Iranian drones to fight its war in Ukraine. Iran can...
- Iran’s New Weapons
- What’s Behind Iran’s Alleged Move?
- Ukraine’s Air Defence Shield
- NASAMS
- IRIS-T
- Israel’s Reticence and The Cold War with Iran
- Winter Woes
One of the ironies of sanctions against Iran is that it now has a robust military-industrial complex, with a particular focus on drones and short- to medium-range missiles. Tehran has steadily improved on domestic designs, incrementally increasing range, accuracy and survivability of long-range drones, loitering munitions and a large and growing ar...
Questions are being asked at the United Nations Security Council about whether Iran has broken its treaty obligations by actively supporting Russia, a pariah on the world stage. Even so, Iran has something to gain. Though many different models and types of drones and missiles are being manufactured there, the true test of any weapon system is the b...
So, how has Ukraine been impacted? Officials in Kyiv must be increasingly concerned that Russia will use these cheap imports to swamp Ukraine’s air defences. The effort to shoot down the recent drone swarms has significantly depleted Ukraine’s inventory and replacements are badly needed to protect its HIMARS batteriesand cities from attack. At the ...
The first NASAMS, or National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, arrived in Ukraine in September. A Norwegian/US collaboration, NASAMS has distributed radars that can spot and track a variety of targets over a very wide area, extremely suitable for protecting the vast Ukrainian landscape. NASAMS can also incorporate very different air defence...
Germany has rushed four of its short-to-medium-ranged IRIS-T Air defence missile systems to Ukraine. They arrived in early October, partly to help Ukraine, but also to counter growing domestic and international impatience with what is being perceived as Berlin’s indifference to the conflict. The IRIS-T is so new that it has never been tested in com...
Ukraine, which has strong cultural ties with Israel, was surprisedwhen it was recently rebuffed for purchases of the short-range Iron Dome and medium-range Barak 8 air defence weapons. Israel is pushing to export both weapons to several countries interested in buying, but it has refused to sell to Ukraine because such a move could trigger a Russian...
The arrival of Iranian weapons startled the world, and the aftermath of the attacks, mainly focused on Ukraine’s civilian population and energy infrastructure, have helped President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleas for advanced weapons – especially as winter approaches. The weather – cold, wet, boggy, muddy and even snowy – will not stop the fighting bu...
Nov 18, 2021 · In the drone wars, propaganda can be as important as actual advances. Everyone building drones seems to copy one another. For instance, Iran’s Saegeh was a direct copy of the Sentinel. Iran’s Shahed S-171 jet-powered Simorgh is also a copy of the Sentinel, first deployed in 2014.
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Feb 19, 2023 · Iran to launch unmanned Qaher warplane in future months - Tehran Times. Politics. February 19, 2023 - 23:0. TEHRAN - The indigenous Qaher single-seat unmanned stealth fighter will be unveiled by the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) in the upcoming solar year, which starts on March 21.
