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[Sineva]

 

[Stryker1982]

Which one of you did this?

 

[sahureka2]

hatches to reach the engine room, or ... similar to the Norwegians and North Koreans, sites where anti-ship missile canister are installed that only lift when the missiles are to be launched?

Norwegians skjold class

 

[sanel1412]

Jamaran ship captured 2 saildrones in Red Sea, IRIN said these drones represented danger to shiping lines, so they captured it and moved to safe area and throw in to water, now seems cameras are missing.. not clear if IRIN keep it or fall in to water during operation

 

[sha ah]

They likely took them apart and took detailed photos of them, measurements, kept the cameras and the important parts/sensors. They basically gutted them and dumped them. The rest like the solar panels are nothing special.

I don't think Iran will make its own copies of these. Like the other poster said the only great thing about them is the fact that they can operate for long periods of time without maintenance.

Overall these types of drones are very vulnerable though. Any fishermen can seize them and easily sell them for cash. In China, the government gives Chinese fishermen hefty rewards to capture US underwater drones, never mind these junks.

Jamaran ship captured 2 saildrones in Red Sea, IRIN said these drones represented danger to shiping lines, so they captured it and moved to safe area and throw in to water, now seems cameras are missing.. not clear if IRIN keep it or fall in to water during operationView attachment 875782View attachment 875784

 

[sha ah]

Did some more digging up on these things. This specific variant, the Saildrone Explorer, which the US navy is using, is the least sophisticated, smallest and least capable of these drones. Its mostly used for atmospheric data collection.

The larger variants are diesel electric. Apparently the producer charges $3000 an hour to operate these but sending a manned ship for atmospheric/oceanographic data collection can cost up to $30,000 an hour.

If someone really wanted to seize one of these the best thing to do would be to use a signal blocking device, attach it to the drone, maybe at night with a speedboat and then pass it off to a fishing boat and then the operators would have no clue where they were or what happened to them.

Saildrone Explorer
Specifications

• 23 feet (7 m) long
• Solar & wind powered
• Wind propulsion 3 knots avg.
• >365 days endurance
• Cameras, ML
• Atmospheric and oceanographic array

Jamaran ship captured 2 saildrones in Red Sea, IRIN said these drones represented danger to shiping lines, so they captured it and moved to safe area and throw in to water, now seems cameras are missing.. not clear if IRIN keep it or fall in to water during operationView attachment 875782View attachment 875784

 

[jauk]

Jamaran ship captured 2 saildrones in Red Sea, IRIN said these drones represented danger to shiping lines, so they captured it and moved to safe area and throw in to water, now seems cameras are missing.. not clear if IRIN keep it or fall in to water during operationView attachment 875782View attachment 875784

Saildrone = شهپاد

…also the acquiring tech is a secondary goal. The primary goal is dominance and harassment.

 

[TheImmortal]

Did some more digging up on these things. This specific variant, the Saildrone Explorer, which the US navy is using, is the least sophisticated, smallest and least capable of these drones. Its mostly used for atmospheric data collection.

The larger variants are diesel electric. Apparently the producer charges $3000 an hour to operate these but sending a manned ship for atmospheric/oceanographic data collection can cost up to $30,000 an hour.

If someone really wanted to seize one of these the best thing to do would be to use a signal blocking device, attach it to the drone, maybe at night with a speedboat and then pass it off to a fishing boat and then the operators would have no clue where they were or what happened to them.

View attachment 875812
Saildrone Explorer
Specifications

• 23 feet (7 m) long
• Solar & wind powered
• Wind propulsion 3 knots avg.
• >365 days endurance
• Cameras, ML
• Atmospheric and oceanographic array

You are confusing the purpose.

The US navy is setting up a network of 100’s of the cheap drones as basically a 24/7 monitoring system of PG/Arabian Sea/Red Sea. So individually they are rather unremarkable but in a constellation they are SIGINT threat.

They report back to the US Navy base in Bahrain when they detect certain types of ships passing by and provide pictures/video.

Probably cheaper than keeping a network of spy satellites monitoring the seas. And the data can be shared with Arab countries and Israel.

 

[Stryker1982]

Did some more digging up on these things. This specific variant, the Saildrone Explorer, which the US navy is using, is the least sophisticated, smallest and least capable of these drones. Its mostly used for atmospheric data collection.

The larger variants are diesel electric. Apparently the producer charges $3000 an hour to operate these but sending a manned ship for atmospheric/oceanographic data collection can cost up to $30,000 an hour.

If someone really wanted to seize one of these the best thing to do would be to use a signal blocking device, attach it to the drone, maybe at night with a speedboat and then pass it off to a fishing boat and then the operators would have no clue where they were or what happened to them.

View attachment 875812
Saildrone Explorer
Specifications

• 23 feet (7 m) long
• Solar & wind powered
• Wind propulsion 3 knots avg.
• >365 days endurance
• Cameras, ML
• Atmospheric and oceanographic array

This has much greater military applications as TheImmortal pointed out. They want 24/7 survellence setup

 

[Sineva]

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hatches to reach the engine room, or ... similar to the Norwegians and North Koreans, sites where anti-ship missile canister are installed that only lift when the missiles are to be launched?

Norwegians skjold class

Well spotted as always.

 

[Stryker1982]

Guys, new warship just dropped!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1566677586767450112

Lovely,
Kammand CIWS clearly seen, and probably Ghader anti-shipping. Waiting for clearly images
Also @sahureka2

Radar not installed yet?

 

[Muhammed45]

 

[sahureka2]

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It looks like the Iranian-made turret armed with a 30 mm gun, installed on rotated and tracked armored vehicles

 

[sanel1412]

Guys, new warship just dropped!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1566677586767450112

View attachment 876285

Lovely,
Kammand CIWS clearly seen, and probably Ghader anti-shipping. Waiting for clearly images
Also @sahureka2

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Radar not installed yet?

From what I can see, there are navigational radar, SAM and AScM FCS(in dome) and Satcom, but I cant see Search or acquisition radar, probably Will get it later.

 

[mohsen]

WOW

https://twitter.com/x/status/1566712298517020674