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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. It is considered a long-range, cost ...
The HESA Karrar (Persian: کرار) is an Iranian jet-powered target drone manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA) since 2010. The Karrar is a derivative of the American 1970s-era Beechcraft MQM-107 Streaker target drone, probably incorporating elements from the South African Skua , with hardpoints added for munitions.
HESA has been subject to American sanctions since 2008. [6] The Council of the European Union sanctioned it on 26 July 2010, [7] and HM Treasury on 27 July 2010. [8] On 30 January 2023, the European Union imposed additional sanctions on HESA for providing Russia with UAVs used in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [9] [10]
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Also on 29 July 2021, a delta-wing drone, similar to unmanned "kamikaze" drones developed for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, flew into the pilothouse of the Merchant tanker Mercer Street in the July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident. It was reported that two crewmembers (a Romanian and UK national assigned to security) were killed. [11]
Mirsad-1 on display. The Mirsad-1 (Arabic: مرصاد, English: "Observation post"), known in Iran as the Ababil-T, [1] is a designation for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used for reconnaissance purposes by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in the 2000s, where it entered Israel on two occasions, in 2004 and 2005.
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]
The Shahed 129 made its first known drone strike in February 2016, which was the first wartime drone strike by Iran. [24] [13] There is some evidence Shahed 129s may have made a drone strike with Sadid-1 missiles in November 2015. [25] A Shahed 129 was also used to provide bomb damage assessment for the 2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike. [10]