Iranian UAVs | News and Discussions

[Mehdipersian]

This will be hard considering the lack of official sources on Almas from the west, the article would be sourced only with western medias, Wikipedia doesn't accept most Iran-linked media as sources

IMO someone will surely make the article as Almas is used these days and people wonders what it is, most of the western medias doesn't include constructive analysis and specs and limits themselves to "It is a Spike copy"

Also does Almas have 8 or 10km range for the tripod version?

When someone will do it with better english i will make the french version as i did for most Iran warships, drones and missiles, also my english is not perfect

الماس (موشک) - ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد

fa.m.wikipedia.org

 

[muhammed45]

My favourite drone Fotros, long time, no see.



Hope this beautiful beast returns to the headlines and enters mass production lines in defense ministry.

Ps. This drone is the largest drone ever built in Iran.

 

[muhammed45]

My favourite drone Fotros, long time, no see.

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Hope this beautiful beast returns to the headlines and enters mass production lines in defense ministry.

Ps. This drone is the largest drone ever built in Iran.

 

[Immortals]

My favourite drone Fotros, long time, no see.

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Hope this beautiful beast returns to the headlines and enters mass production lines in defense ministry.

Ps. This drone is the largest drone ever built in Iran.

No real point for such a drone. It’s big, slow, and an easy target.

You could make an ISR aircraft or a signal relayed, but that’s about it. As Global Hawk showed these massive drones are just easy targets for any enemy with a decent AD network. And Global Hawk was magnitudes more advanced than Fotros or any Iranian drone in regards to engine/avionics/and countermeasure systems. Yet it still got downed by a single Sayyad missile.

 

[Hack-Hook]

My favourite drone Fotros, long time, no see.

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Hope this beautiful beast returns to the headlines and enters mass production lines in defense ministry.

Ps. This drone is the largest drone ever built in Iran.

it was good 11 years ago , right now it has become a little aged, kaman-22 and shahed-149 make a lot more sense

 

[Immortals]

it was good 11 years ago , right now it has become a little aged, kaman-22 and shahed-149 make a lot more sense

None of them make sense outside of peacetime.That’s why few numbers exist.

That is already why Gaza drone is being openly available for export. Good drones for banana countries or endurance to operate far from base. Limited usefulness against peer adversary.

Big bulky easy to spot drones with no defense capability are vulnerable. They require substantial amounts of expensive optics and subsystems to become a floating ISR ie. global Hawk. Iran won’t make such high tech investments into a platform that can be shot down so easily. Most of their drones don’t even have SAR added yet, it’s an optional [expensive] feature.

 

[ParthianLord]

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[jauk]

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I wanted to note how Bloomberg correctly uses the term ‘Iranian technology’ as opposed to the dimwits that use terms like ‘homegrown’ or ‘indigenous’. Words matter. Branding matters.

Don’t be a dimwit.

 

[HamidAgha]

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It's amazing how they don't think their weapons sales and military industrial complex "puts nations on edge". Only Iran's...

 

[Flotilla]

It's amazing how they don't think their weapons sales and military industrial complex "puts nations on edge". Only Iran's...

Completely agreed. Lockheed Martin´s and Raytheon´s wars have killed thousands of childrens in Yemen, Afghanistan and Ukraine... but those doesn´t count.

 

[ParthianLord]

Iran's stealth drones have become the new blueprint for international warfare

Iran has emerged as an expert in low-tech drone warfare thanks to decades of Western sanctions that forced the country to innovate weapons production.

www.businessinsider.com

"Iran's stealth drones and their copycats are popping up on battlefields from Ukraine to Sudan, making it a standout in global drone warfare and raising concerns about increasing military instability around the world."


funny though how they claim IRAN´s arms cause "military instability around the world" because they are used by a number of "states in conflict with the West"


but on the other hand they claim even western countries are copying Iranian drone warfare because its the future(in their words).

 

[ParthianLord]

Reuters " US Intelligence: Sudanese government has "defacto" defeated the rebels using iranian drones and arms, the Sudanese government destroyed most rebel strongholds "

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/are-iranian-drones-turning-tide-sudans-civil-war-2024-04-10/

April 10 (Reuters) - A year into Sudan's civil war, Iranian-made armed drones have helped the army turn the tide of the conflict, halting the progress of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Force and regaining territory around the capital, a senior army source told Reuters.


they were using saudi and israeli provided arms but switched to"mass deploying" Iranian arms 2 months ago and now the government "defacto defeated the rebels" after almost 15 years of tensions and recent outbreak of fullscale civil war.

"30 Aug 2019 — Since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, Israel has continuously sold it weapons, surveillance technology and provided military ..."

 

[Persian Gulf]

 

[Immortals]

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Wow look at those 200 drones all flying

 

[MLK]

Reuters " US Intelligence: Sudanese government has "defacto" defeated the rebels using iranian drones and arms, the Sudanese government destroyed most rebel strongholds "

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/are-iranian-drones-turning-tide-sudans-civil-war-2024-04-10/

April 10 (Reuters) - A year into Sudan's civil war, Iranian-made armed drones have helped the army turn the tide of the conflict, halting the progress of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Force and regaining territory around the capital, a senior army source told Reuters.


they were using saudi and israeli provided arms but switched to"mass deploying" Iranian arms 2 months ago and now the government "defacto defeated the rebels" after almost 15 years of tensions and recent outbreak of fullscale civil war.

"30 Aug 2019 — Since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, Israel has continuously sold it weapons, surveillance technology and provided military ..."

Effective. Hope the Sudanese government build on this.