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The first possibility is generic enough to account for this scenario.

This is what we can see from the videos Iranian media published. There are three videos that show "impact". This is the one that hit the target (Or at least, close enough to destroy it). There is one that hit the ground near the target: The target was about 12 meters further. But it...

Is there actually a "Tehran Factory"? From what I know, almost all of the Iranian work on armored vehicles was done in the Dorood factory. I'd appreciate any info about this Tehran factory.

From what I have heard, some of these products are designed by the defense industry, but not actually accepted from the military branches. IRGC chose that upgraded CQ for their next standard rifle and the Army simply has no budget or incentive to use higher end rifles. Actually, there is a trend...

That's Matla'ul Fajr 1. It has been around for quite a while. http://www.mindexcenter.ir/product/semi-long-vhf-air-surveillance-radar

The last picture has "Zelzal" written on the missile. Still, this supposed upgrade was always a mystery for me. Zelzal rockets have higher speed (due to lower burn time) than Fateh missiles. Won't this affect the guidance system? Can those control surfaces tolerate this higher speed? And if the...

Can you confirm whether DIO is actually involved with Shahed-129? I thought it was an IRGC product without any links to DIO.

There is no indication of them being reverse engineered yet. The wooden propellers are generally used in smaller UAVs. A rather old picture of some Iranian made engines.

The first picture is quite certainly some kind of wing or control surface.

He's speaking about the first picture not the others.

New Ababil-3s are certainly copies. But the original batch was either imported or license manufactured. As there are only reports of South Africa selling UAV parts (not assembled ones) to Iran, we can safely assume that it was a license production that continued (as a copy) even after the end of...

I beg to differ. License production almost always means that at least part of the parts are imported from the original developer. Also, I don't get your point about it being retired. Yes, Seeker-1 is retired. But Seeker-2 which it shares a lot of components with is not.

There are many conflicting reports about this. The "official" South African stand is that they stopped Denel from selling UAV parts to Iran, but we know that in the end Iran got a fleet of drones that are extremely similar to Seeker 1, and we know that Iran was actually extremely secretive about...

Ababil-3 is actually a license production of Seeker-1 not Seeker-2. http://www.saairforce.co.za/seed/public/files/aircraft_images/160/461e3be284be4_large.jpg http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/aircraft/160/seeker-1 The similarity is too much to be a coincidence.

I think there are two "teams" in Ghods Industries. One of them is the one that developed the original Ababil and the other the one that continued the development of Mohajer. I think the Ababil team was responsible for the license production (and eventual copying) of the early version of the...

Note that Iran's current capabilities only allow for small-scale production of such components. Large scale production is still a problem, at least in the field of radars.

These are Oghab 2, 3, and 11 offered for export: Oghab 11 | IRAN Defence Products Aerial Camera Eagle | ieimil.ir Aerial Camera Eagle-2 | ieimil.ir And these are other similar systems: Electro-optical Gyro stablized Surveillance System, EOG | ieimil.ir EOG-2 | ieimil.ir The name of Oghab-6 is...

Like gathering info about the afghan civil war in 1990s (Back when your army didn't probably even know what a UAV actually is), about in the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon. Other notable cases include monitoring the foreign -mainly American- ships in the Persian Gulf, with some interesting...

These "hobby projects" have had enough mission records to show how capable they are and this is acknowledged by both our friends and foes. Your drones, no matter how they look, have yet to show any successful mission records. So better get your trolling somewhere else.

For those who don't know, IHSRC is the same as PANHA (The latter is the acronym of the name in Persian). Interesting enough, The company is now actually making helicopters (A prototype of P-1 is already built and P-2 is to be made soon enough). Maybe they should change the name to reflect it.