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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.
Iranian military officials say that Shahed 129 UAV can increase Iran's surveillance capabilities in border areas such as the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. [26] Mohammad Ali Jafari described the UAV as "smart, accurate and inexpensive." [27] Shahed 129s have been broadly dispersed and are not operated from any central airbase.
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. It was then that Iran ...
A photographer for the AFP news agency caught an unusually clear view of Russia deploying an Iranian Shahed-136 drone in Kyiv on Monday.
Online videos shared by Iranian state television purported to show delta-wing-style drones resembling the Iranian Shahed-136s long used by Russia in its war on Ukraine. The slow-flying drones ...
Karrar – capable of carrying a military payload of rockets to carry out bombing missions against ground targets. It is also capable of flying long distances at a very high speed. [43] It can also carry interceptor missiles. [44] Khodkar – wide-body combat and surveillance; using J85 turbojet engine (converted Lockheed T-33) [45]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister were found dead Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as ...
Qaher-313 in 2017. The managing director of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO), a subsidiary of the Defense Ministry, announced in a televised interview on 18 February 2023 that the fighter had reached technical maturity but would be reworked and fielded as an unmanned drone rather than a manned aircraft to adapt it to the requirements of Iranian military units, first deliveries ...