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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 following is a list of unmanned aerial vehicles developed and ... List of Iranian drone bases. Shahed 171 Mohajer-6. HESA Ababil; ... Philippines Knight Falcon ...
This list is largely courtesy of globalsecurity.org. [16] Iran has several organizations that manufacture drones, amongst which are: Qods Aviation Industry Company, IAMCO and Shahed Aviation Industries. Ababeel UAV (swallow) Ababil-2 Ababeel-3 Ababeel-B Ababeel-S Ababeel-T; Arash UAV / Arash-2; Baaz UAV (falcon) Chabokpar UAV (light wing ...
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]
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]
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 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.
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]