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  1. Feb 2, 2024 · Iran’s largest suicide drones, such as the Arash series, can carry nearly 260 kilograms (575 pounds) of explosives. They have ranges of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles). Combat and surveillance drones: Iran has more than a dozen models of combat drones that can attack ground, sea or air targets and then return to base. Larger models, such as ...

  2. Jun 30, 2021 · In April 2021, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr. warned that the Middle East was becoming a “proving ground for the proliferation and employment of unmanned weaponized systems, many emanating from Iran.” The drone transfers were part of Iran’s asymmetric strategy to compensate for its military weakness. Exporting drones provided Iran with ...

  3. May 28, 2022 · State TV said 100 drones were being kept in the heart of the Zagros mountains, including Ababil-5, which it said were fitted with Qaem-9 missiles, an Iranian-made version of air-to-surface U.S ...

  4. Apr 9, 2024 · This leaves the question of which weapons Iran has at hand to strike Israeli targets. In the past, Iran has delivered long-range drones and missiles to allies to attack Israel, accepting losses among those allies in retaliatory air strikes. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, praying at the coffins of members of the IRGC who ...

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  5. Jun 11, 2020 · A decade later, other aircraft fell from the sky that proved much more suitable to Iran’s ambitions. An Israeli Hermes UAV came down over the country then a few years later in 2011, an advanced CIA RQ170 Sentinel crashed over northern Iran. Both, along with other crashes, contributed to significantly to Iran’s drone programme.

  6. Apr 8, 2024 · April 8, 2024 at 2:00 PM PDT. In January, rebels fighting the Sudanese army shot down a drone near Khartoum. As jubilant gunmen posted video of the wreckage on social media, they offered a fresh ...

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  8. Sep 4, 2021 · Iran has also recovered many crashed U.S. drones including Boeing ScanEagles, RQ-170 surveillance drones, and Predator and Reaper combat drones, and developed domestic designs clearly modeled ...