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[Sineva]

Arash drone fitted with new optical seeker.

 

[Sineva]

An excellent shot showing the new much larger optronic turret on the mohajer 10,possibly 4 axis stabilised?

Some good shots of the back end as well.
I`m thinking that its almost certainly the Rotax 914 powering this thing,but then again it could be the 915......

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694259492400009525

^ Mohajer-7 and Mohajer-9 are currently in production, Mohajer-8 has already been produced and is essentially a modernized Mohajer-6

 

[RΛIDEN]

In collective comparison:

Mohajer-10

Kaman-22

Shahed-149

Fotros

Shahed-129

 

[Sineva]

An excellent shot showing the new much larger optronic turret on the mohajer 10,possibly 4 axis stabilised?

Some good shots of the back end as well.
I`m thinking that its almost certainly the Rotax 914 powering this thing,but then again it could be the 915......

Nice close up shot of the weapons pylons on the mohajer 10.
You can see how easily they can be converted from carrying a single weapon to carrying two with a simple adapter.

You can also see the overlapping folded wings on the arman glide bomb.

 

[Stryker1982]

One of the clever features of the Arman glide bombs is their use of staggered overlapping wings,this makes for a more compact design.
I can only think of one other glide bomb that currently uses this feature,the russian fab-500 based UMPK kit,tho this is a rather crudely constructed JDAM analogue.
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Big fan of the powered glide bomb which was a much needed asset.

 

[Sineva]

Big fan of the powered glide bomb which was a much needed asset.

Agreed,and with an electric motor it could in theory spend periods gliding and then switching over to battery power in order to maximize its range.
Thats the beauty of an electric motor,plus its also very quiet.
I suspect that we`ll be seeing a lot more of these types of weapons in the future.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Agreed,and with an electric motor it could in theory spend periods gliding and then switching over to battery power in order to maximize its range.
Thats the beauty of an electric motor,plus its also very quiet.
I suspect that we`ll be seeing a lot more of these types of weapons in the future.

a liquid fuel rocket engine also can do that
by the way Arman-1 don't have that and that's part of Arman-2
now by looking at these two and the specs of these bombs

Arman-1 : Weight 35KG - Range 20km
Arman-2: Weight 40kg, Range 100km

the only different i see is that electric engine, batteries and propeller
I bet adding those to Arman-1 won't cost even 1000 Dollar so I hope they build more Arman-2 and Less Arman-1.
one point about these bombs is they are not limited only to Mohajer-10 and also can be used on other Iranian drones.

in-fact when i look at it i wonder why not installing it on f-4 and kowsar each of those easily can carry 12-20 of these bombs and attack enemy target precisely 100 km away if they make compatible adapter for these bombs and pylon of those airplanes. just think what a headache they would be for any air-defense system around the world

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694641527937548527

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694649518636020106

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694679258306646281

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694685566959292629

 

[aryobarzan]

And me.....I like the name.."ARMAN" beautiful Farsi name.

 

[mohsen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694259492400009525

^ Mohajer-7 and Mohajer-9 are currently in production, Mohajer-8 has already been produced and is essentially a modernized Mohajer-6

Head of Mohajer-10 design team:

The design of any product is based on the requirements announced by the armed forces and with the approval of the General Staff of the armed forces.

Mohajer-10 was also designed and produced based on the requirements declared by the armed forces, especially the land and sea forces of the IRGC and the army ground forces.

The design of the Shahed-129 belongs to 10 years ago, and based on the needs of the armed forces, it was necessary to design a new drone with advanced technology in various fields, especially with new avionics. Therefore, the Mohajer-10 drone was designed and produced with more advanced avionics, optics and technology.

Mohajer-8 is in fact an updated version of Mohajer-6 and it's already produced and operational.

Mohajer-7 and 9 are also under construction, and it is not possible to publish more details about their specifications at the moment.

تشریح دلایل ساخت پهپاد مهاجر10 در گفتگو با طراح پروژه/ مهاجرهای 7 و 9 در دست تولید هستند- اخبار نظامی | دفاعی | امنیتی - اخبار سیاسی تسنیم | Tasnim

 

[drmeson]

Story of mismanagement and parallel ego projects in Iran continues.

 

[Sineva]

"Image of Ababil 5 drone equipped with Arman 1 long-range bomb.
This bomb, which has a speed between 180 and 200 km/h when released, and with a maximum range of 20 km, protects the carrier drone from anti-aircraft cannons and short-range defense systems." (translation)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1695322561838457206

 

[Messerschmitt]

"Image of Ababil 5 drone equipped with Arman 1 long-range bomb.
This bomb, which has a speed between 180 and 200 km/h when released, and with a maximum range of 20 km, protects the carrier drone from anti-aircraft cannons and short-range defense systems." (translation)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1695322561838457206

If euipped with Arman-2, which weighs just 5kg more than Arman-1, such drones could stay outside the envelope of most medium-to-long-range ADS while posing a threat to enemy ADS. Arman-2 is basically a smaller 'Small Diameter Bomb' (SDB), or a 'Mini Diameter Bomb'. It's small, relatively light-weight (40 kg), long-range (100 km) and compatible with most Iranian MALE UCAVs, which Iran has a lot of. A small addition (literally) which significantly enhances the offensive capabilities of Iran's fleet of medium-sized drones. Hopefully, MoD will come up with an equivalent to Artesh's Heydar-1/2 ALCM (200 km) for the likes of Mohajer-10 (and maybe -7,-8,-9) and Shahed-129/149, enabling these drones to outrange most modern long-range SAM systems.

 

[Sineva]

A new [previously unseen?] vtol uav

https://twitter.com/x/status/1695507944668864641

The winglets remind me of the meraj uav,tho it looks more pelican 2 sized,the tail looks more like the one from the iranian rq21 look a like [yemeni mersad]