Iranian UAV fleet expands

Iran introduced a new local-made UAV Shaparak ("Butterfly"). It weighs about 100 kg, carries a 8 kg payload and is able to be airborne for 3.5 hours. The range of Shaparak is up to 50 kilometers from the operator, and the height of the flight is about 4.5 km.

Iranians are developing UAVs from the 1980's. The most used Iranian UAVs are Ababil vehicles. These are 82 x kilogram UAVs with a wingspan of 2.9 meters, a payload of 35 kg, a cruising speed of 290 kilometers per hour and a flight duration of 90 minutes. As far as is known, the Ababil flight range is 249 kilometers from the control station. The control system allows the UAV to fly along a predetermined route, and then independently return to the ground control station and land with a parachute. Ababil can be equipped with various day / night photos and video cameras. On the open market, there are many inexpensive and highly capable cameras and equipment needed to transmit video and photo information to the monitoring station.

Ababil was spotted in Sudan and Lebanon, where Hezbollah, supported by Iran, received about a dozen of such UAVs. Israelis fear that low-flying Ababils could threaten Israel from Lebanon’s territory by carrying nerve gas or even explosives. Guided by GPS signals, such UAVs can hit targets with high accuracy. In addition, there is nothing exotic in UAV technology, at least in such as Ababil. The development of Iranian UAVs is based on US unmanned aerial vehicles obtained in the 1970-ies (Firebee air targets).

Iran also has a large (174 kg) UAV Mohajer IV representing the latest model line originating in the 1980-ies. Mohajer II is about the same size as Ababil.

Comments

[tronin.maxim]

Glad for Iran! By quietly, by the lighter there will be their own good UAVs.

[domokl]

Iran, in connection with the current situation, is becoming the really strongest martial law state of the region ... That is. fulfills its strategic task of rallying Muslim countries under its wing ... Now everyone, including Russia, will have to reckon with it.

[Норд]

Now they will study the planted American UAV RQ-170 and create more advanced models. Time works for Iran. There are already peysaty fussed, and this is evidence of a good technical level of Iranian UAVs.

[core]

the countries of the region do not rally around it, they are completely different, it’s also itself to speak of rallying Russia and Poland. Persians are not Arabs or Turks, they are different, this is one of the last ancient ethnic groups.

[Justme]

By the way, on the forums of our specialists in electronics, management and the like ... aspects, prospects and features of work, for example, in Iran, are regularly "sucked", on what developments and other technical nuances are made there - that is, our people are more than aware of.

[ward]

About how many discoveries of chudy bring enlightenment to us the way .... it seems that the amers looked, thought and decided, well, we’ll be more whole ... What surprises me is to study with us, do it at home ... maybe we should do something, learn from them ... and not to buy UAVs of the third freshness from other countries ... plus ...

[JoylyRoger]

The Iranians took it seriously.
I look forward to comments or articles on the situation with the UAV and our comparison

[leon-iv]

why consider the characteristics of Murzilka
and who will tell you about the special suspension on our UAVs.

[Just_patriot]

No, the amers will not go there.

[ward]

Plus everyone ... I’ll catch I will kill ....

[igor67]

2 photos of IDF soldiers,

[Professor]

So it is, visiting the fragments of a downed Iranian UAV launched by Hezbollah in the summer of the 2006 year visiting the sea.

[igor67]

UTB in the wounded kibbutzim Sasa and Baramm

[Professor]

I wrote "in the sea", and as far as I understand geography (blessing Google Earth at hand), the kibbutz you mentioned are not quite at sea.

[igor67]

2006 moya jena rabotala v dome prestarelix v kibuce Baram, ona mne zvonila v tot moment kogda sbili bezpilotnik

[Professor]

Hezbollah UAVs were also shot down in that area. Moreover, he was shot down by the F-16 (there is a photo on which the mark on the downed UAV is marked on the F-16). In an interview, a former Israeli military attache in Russia (the one who was turned out for espionage) said that the UAV was shot down by specially designed weapons for these purposes. Which one, he did not explain.

[igor67]

v tot moment ya slishal chto to poxojee na krupno kaliberniy pulimet, potomu chto bilia ochered

[Professor]

One more:

And a bit of pornography:

[Num lock U.A.]

what kind of "pornography"? can you give me more details?

[Professor]

This is an Iranian miracle weapon in a different position.

[Num lock U.A.]

during the times of the Union, all sorts of "homemade" movements were very strong, even annual meetings were held, and this "product" looks like these creations
although if it will be produced in every workshop (such as PPSh during the Second World War), then the enemy may have certain difficulties - there will not be enough stock of anti-aircraft missiles and the cost / effectiveness of dealing with such aircraft will be exorbitant
why is there such a strange "signature" in the corner of the NP?

[Professor]

This is an Iranian Zafar 300 combat helicopter:

The Iranians went further and made their "Cobra". One can only speculate about the quality, performance and filling, but clearly "has no analogues in the world" Shahed 285.

why is there such a strange "signature" in the corner of the NP?

Not at all strange, this is the site of aviation enthusiasts, and the MiG-21 is worthy of respect.

[Num lock U.A.]

it is clear (signature), otherwise I already thought that they called their product so

[Ivan Tarasov]

http://imp-navigator.livejournal.com/79654.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2v6kOcJwpw
There is an option with RCC.

[rumpeljschtizhen]

.prinipe also looks like their drones ..... missiles .... and others

[Num lock U.A.]

well, they recently "landed" a new, high-tech role model for themselves

[Insurgent]

You can still take off on it, but there is no guarantee of a soft landing

[755962]

Quote: professor

Another

Judging by the landing gear, ski landing?

[Professor]

Parachute, and then how lucky.

[755962]

Why weight the structure with such a bulky chassis if landing by parachuting? There are more logical ways.

[Num lock U.A.]

There are more logical ways.

yeah, for example, a supply of explosives for operational use on freshly identified targets

[Insurgent]

Not from a good life, it’s probably if you could have bought ansat light helicopter a long time ago

Probably ptaushniki collected)))

Probably ptaushniki collected)))

[igor67]

eto UAV? ili vertushka

[Num lock U.A.]

And a bit of pornography:

clearly written there

[M_I_T_YA_89]

UAVs are good, cheap, reliable and efficient.

[Odinplys]

Come on Iran ... arm yourself and beat the Zionist reptile slowly ...

[Insurgent]

It’s all the same what to compare Akm with a flintlock gun

[Insurgent]

Probably ptaushniki collected)))

[iulai]

no well done Iranians, not like our fat-bellied generals who think not with their heads, but with their stomachs.

[Professor]

I came across a video where the Israeli Air Force shot down an Iranian UAV in the 2006 year.
Hezbollah UAV