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The HESA Ababil (Persian: ابابیل) is an Iranian family of single-engine multirole tactical unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). The Ababil comes in four main lines, the Ababil-2 ,3, 4 and 5, of which the Ababil-2 has a number of variants.
The cost–benefit analysis of these drones compared to defending surface-to-air missile systems is in favor of the Shahed drones. [5] Loitering munitions downed after they have reached cities can lead to large-scale collateral damage from falling wreckage. Initially, the price of a Shahed-136 drone was estimated at between $20,000 and $50,000. [5]
Homa, Chamrosh, Jubin, Ababil-4 and Bavar-5 - naval drones [70] Safir - training drone; Shahab - training and reconnaissance drone [71] Shahed 131 – A suicide drone (kamikaze) [72] Meraj-521 - suicide drone similar to the US Switchblade kamikaze drone [73] Meraj-532 - suicide drone with a range of 450 km and a warhead of 50 kg [74]
Iran first began using UAVs in 1985, with the Ababil-1 and Mohajer-1, which spied on Iraqi positions behind front-line trenches.In 1988, following Operation Praying Mantis where the US Navy inflicted heavy loses on Iran’s air and navy forces, [2] Iranian strategists realized they could not openly face the US by water.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, on Sunday were investigating instances of Russian drones that crashed ...
Romania is to acquire 7 systems, with a total of 21 drones. Compared to the British systems , the drones offered to Romania will have more modern systems. [ 165 ] The first purchase order of 3 systems with a total of 9 drones was awarded to Elbit Systems in June 2023.
NATO member Romania found new fragments of a drone deemed similar to those used by the Russian army near its border with Ukraine on Wednesday, in the third such finding in a week, defense ...
On Saturday, Romanian authorities found the second set of drone fragments to have crashed in the NATO member state in a week, amid Russian attacks on Ukraine's river ports, just hundreds of metres ...