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[Hack-Hook]

They unveil everything except what we need most .
Miniaturized Air to Air missiles.
Fakour is too big for our airplanes we need something in size of Aim-7 with a range of at least 70km if we want to invest on kowsar jet.

 

[Sineva]

Yassin and balaban satellite guided bombs,plus new drone launched glide bombs.

 

[PeeD]

Two of the lightest variants of the Qaem can be carried by the Ababil-3 giving that tactical widespread low tier UAV a strike capability.

Hamaeh of the DIO was also shown with Qaem PGM although not in service with Irans forces.

Plus Balaban SDB-like PGM is primarily for the Karrar jet strike drone. Yassin probably reduced its performance to much, hence the lighter Balaban.

DIO replaces the IRGC's Sadid PGM with the Qaem family.

 

[Sineva]

They unveil everything except what we need most .
Miniaturized Air to Air missiles.
Fakour is too big for our airplanes we need something in size of Aim-7 with a range of at least 70km if we want to invest on kowsar jet.

Theres no point in equipping the kowsar with bvr missiles unless you`re going to upgrade it with a brand new radar as well,sadly tho it doesnt look like they`re going to do that even tho its what the machine badly needs.

 

[skyshadow]

Testing of Iranian Yasin, Balaban and Qaem Guided Bombs

 

[Hack-Hook]

Testing of Iranian Yasin, Balaban and Qaem Guided Bombs

Did I correctly saw karrar doing ground attack ?
If so its very interesting capability if we need attack someplace very fast.

Theres no point in equipping the kowsar with bvr missiles unless you`re going to upgrade it with a brand new radar as well,sadly tho it doesnt look like they`re going to do that even tho its what the machine badly needs.

Well when iran announce kowsar one of the things said about it was its new radar.

 

[skyshadow]

Did I correctly saw karrar doing ground attack ?
If so its very interesting capability if we need attack someplace very fast.

yes it had that capability for years now it can carry Yassin and Balaban bombs and shot air ti air missiles too.

and there is this version too, the drone has twin jet engines

 

[Sineva]

Two of the lightest variants of the Qaem can be carried by the Ababil-3 giving that tactical widespread low tier UAV a strike capability.

Hamaeh of the DIO was also shown with Qaem PGM although not in service with Irans forces.

Plus Balaban SDB-like PGM is primarily for the Karrar jet strike drone. Yassin probably reduced its performance to much, hence the lighter Balaban.

DIO replaces the IRGC's Sadid PGM with the Qaem family.

I doubt that it would completely replace the sadid as the original flexible fin variant would still be used with the sahed 123 based ucavs with their semi recessed weapons carriage and the rq170 derived jet and prop ucavs with their internal and semi recessed weapons carriage.The fins on the qaem are quite large and we havent seen a version with folding fins so that would probably rule it out for those applications.
Both the yassin and balaban would be potential candidates for extended range versions powered with small turbojets like the air forces drone deployed stand off weapon
I think what impresses me the most in many ways was that the little ababil 3 was able to carry 2 full size glide bombs,tho I do have to wonder how much they had to reduce the payload by to achieve this.It also makes me wonder if they could do the same thing with the mohajer 3 and 4 as this would allow iran to potentially transform even more of its uav force into a ucav force.

 

[Draco.IMF]

there is this version too, the drone has twin jet engines

as far as I know this pic was exposed as Fake/Photoshop

 

[PeeD]

I doubt that it would completely replace the sadid as the original flexible fin variant would still be used with the sahed 123 based ucavs with their semi recessed weapons carriage and the rq170 derived jet and prop ucavs with their internal and semi recessed weapons carriage.The fins on the qaem are quite large and we havent seen a version with folding fins so that would probably rule it out for those applications.
Both the yassin and balaban would be potential candidates for extended range versions powered with small turbojets like the air forces drone deployed stand off weapon

Sure yes, I should have said "outside the IRGC-ASF". Sadid series is the child of the IRGC aerospace force and will remain so. Qaem would be for all the other forces, including IRGC ground force and export.

 

[Sineva]

yes it had that capability for years now it can carry Yassin and Balaban bombs and shot air ti air missiles too.

One of the interesting things that I`ve only just noticed thanks to this series of pictures is that you can see how the cable duct on the side of the air frame has been enlarged and extended over time.In the pic with the orange drone it appears that the cables are not even covered.In the next pic you can see the conduit but it doesnt extend much past the wing,while in the last pics you can see that it extends well past the wing.

Sure yes, I should have said "outside the IRGC-ASF". Sadid series is the child of the IRGC aerospace force and will remain so. Qaem would be for all the other forces, including IRGC ground force and export.

Do you think this is going to be a multi service weapon ie irgc+regular military,or still only just an irgc only weapon?.

 

[Hack-Hook]

yes it had that capability for years now it can carry Yassin and Balaban bombs and shot air ti air missiles too.

and there is this version too, the drone has twin jet engines

There was photos of it with bombs but it's the first video of it that show it do a ground strike.and we never used it for that purpose .

 

[PeeD]

Do you think this is going to be a multi service weapon ie irgc+regular military,or still only just an irgc only weapon?.

This is the DIO mini PGM which it can offer to all Iranian services. IRGC-ASF is a special case, they have their own Sadid family.
IRIAF will certainly go it's own ways with that microjet PGM but hopefully most services except aerospace force will accept the Qaem.

 

[Mithridates]

Iranian reverse engineered TOW cobra targeting sight:

upgrade package for AH-1 that enables these helicopters to carry and launch up to 8 dehlavieh/kornet missiles:

credit: Instagram/iranian_defensive_power

 

[skyshadow]

One of the interesting things that I`ve only just noticed thanks to this series of pictures is that you can see how the cable duct on the side of the air frame has been enlarged and extended over time.In the pic with the orange drone it appears that the cables are not even covered.In the next pic you can see the conduit but it doesnt extend much past the wing,while in the last pics you can see that it extends well past the wing.


Do you think this is going to be a multi service weapon ie irgc+regular military,or still only just an irgc only weapon?.

you are right thanks for bring it up. well its not uncommon as Karar has 3 different models one is for Air to Ground mission and the other is for Air to Air missions and the last one is for Target practice, so the amount of technology used in them are different in each model.

There was photos of it with bombs but it's the first video of it that show it do a ground strike.and we never used it for that purpose .

yes it was the first public use of it before that it was just some pics of it and nothing more to seal deal for it.