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[Flames In The Desert]

Shahed 136 Canisters

 

[Immortals]

Seems it is still piston engine. They split the air intake in three small inlets over the fuselage and shrink in both sides just to make them less detectable. They put the vertical rudders at both sides of the horizontal rudders to hide the propeller also.

Seems to be much more stealth than other Shahed members. But it calls me specially the bulb over the nose. That means that it is probably fitted with satellite node in serial production (remember that Shahed 129 most of them have not satellite node antenna). On the other hand the drone seems to be specially chubby. That means a lot of MTOW. Or has a lot of range or have internal weapons bay. Finally that heavy weight aspect could indicate also a more powerful engine that the universal Rotax 912/914 family. A issue that has been a really bottleneck for iranian drone industry. Anyway this last oppinion it is just purely speculation. Just guessing. It is a complete new drone and seems a mix between Ababil OWA and Shahed 129.

You don’t need to hide the propeller using stabilizers, it’s made of wood. And wood was the first anti stealth material created against radar (Nazi’s WW2). Wood doesn’t refractor radar waves that much.

It’s likely that the stabilizers are there due to the non delta wing design to stabilize the drone.

Iranian drone reliance on prop/turboprop is due to the lack of a fuel efficient microjet.

Nor does it appear that the US RQ-170 engine captured and reverse engineered is being able to produced in large numbers or that is a great long range suitable subsonic jet engine.

 

[Mehdipersian]

Any info on the warhead weight/type?

Not yet
But its bigger for sure

 

[Tijani]