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Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident. On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it ...
It was then that Iran started investing heavily in drones. The Iranian government has since been open about its interest in UAVs. [3] As well, Iran started manufacturing UAVs. [4] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force is the primary operator of Iran’s growing fleet of UAVs, although most Iranian military services employ them. [5]
Iran. Date. January 28, 2023. Executed by. Israel. Several unidentified drones attacked an ammunition factory in Isfahan on the night of January 28–29, 2023, with other unexplained explosions across Iran, [1][2] including a fire in an oil refinery in Tabriz and reports of explosions and fire in Karaj.
The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a group of people and firms based in Iran, China, Hong Kong and Venezuela, tied to the development of Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs. The ...
20 to 30 [1] Developed into. Shahed 171. Shahed Saegheh. The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, nicknamed Wraith, [2] is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Lockheed Martin and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While the USAF has released few details on the UAV's design or ...
Prototype first show on 24 February 2021. Kaman 22 (UAV) (Persian: پهپاد کمان ۲۲) is an Iranian wide-body unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) unveiled on 24 February 2021 by the Islamic republic of Iran Air Force. [5][6] It is said to be the country's first wide-body drone. The range of the Kaman 22 is approximately 3,000 km (1,900 ...
HESA Shahed 136. The HESA Shahed 136 (Persian: شاهد ۱۳۶, lit. ' Witness 136'), also known by its Russian designation Geran-2 (Russian: Герань-2, lit. ' Geranium -2'), is an Iranian-designed loitering munition, [9] also referred to as a kamikaze drone or suicide drone, [10][11][12][13] in the form of an autonomous pusher-propelled ...
KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed its latest overnight drone strike on Ukraine, targeting the capital Kyiv in an attack that lasted into late morning and wounded at least one person, city officials ...