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It looks like Iran’s new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), disclosed by recent pictures and, more in details, by the footage recently aired by Press TV, has nothing to do with the U.S. stealth RQ-170 captured in December 2011.
Although the details of its internal equipment, sensor array and ground control station are still unknown (therefore it’s almost impossible to rule out the possibility that the new drone has some features in common with the Sentinel crash landed last year) the new “Shahed 129” is largely based on the Israeli Hermes 450 model, rather than the Sentinel.
Same shape, size, landing gear type and performance. Only the wing mounting is slightly different from the Israeli MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) spy robot, but quite similar to the one of the Watchkeeper WK450, the Hermes version used for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) purposes by the British Army.
“We are one of the five leading countries in the world in the area of drone technology”, beamed Iranian General Sharam Hassanejad of the Vali-e Asr drone force in an interview with Iranian state media last October.
The general’s words were not an empty boast. Iran has amassed a significant arsenal of drones an arsenal which satellite imagery can reveal in hitherto unseen detail.
On January 4, 2021, a WorldView-2 satellite captured a part of Iran’s drone fleet on a remote airstrip in the desert near Semnan in the country’s North. The image it took was exclusively provided to Bellingcat by European Space Imaging, showing over 154 drones of various types lined up for a large exercise by the Iranian armed forces on January 6.
March 1, 2021: Iran has discovered that its cheapest weapon for attacking Saudi Arabia was more effective in getting past Saudi air defense systems than the hundreds of ballistic missiles fired from Yemen against Saudi targets. This was made clear in September 2019 when Iran sent at least 25 explosive equipped UAVs and cruise missiles to attack the Saudi Abqaiq oil facility and shut down half of Saudi oil production for several days. Within a week Saudi intel revealed that debris found on the ground indicated that Iran used 18 UAVs and seven Ya Ali air-launched cruise missiles to attack two Saudi targets. The Ya Ali has been around since 2014 and has a range of 700 kilometers. This disproved the Iranian claim that Iran-backed Shia rebels in Yemen had carried out the attack and that Iran was not responsible. The Iranians have had a lot of success using proxies, like Hezbollah and Shia rebels in Yemen to attack their enemies in a fashion that allo
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