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On Monday, Iran’s IRGC announced that its Aerospace Force engineers have successfully tested by flying within Iranian space the American version of the RQ-170 drone with the capability of bombing and reconnaissance missions.
“As we promised earlier this year, a test flight of the Iranian version of the RQ-170 was carried out and a video will be released soon,” said Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of Aerospace division. Iran has displayed the model in May 2014.
IRGC has said it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel, broughtdown safely on December 4, 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace from neighboring Afghanistan, and that it’s capable of launching its own production line for the unmanned aircraft.
In October 2012, Lebanese Islamic Resistance militia, Hizbullah, sent an Iranian-designed but assembled in Lebanon drone over Israeli space. It flew nearly for three hours and was able to transmit sensitive Israeli military positions before it was shot-down by Israeli jets.
In October 2013, Brig-General Farzad Esmayeeli, Commander of Iran’s Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, presented an Iranian-made model of American ScanEagle, to Lt. General Viktor Bondarev, Russian Air Force Commander.
In August 2014, Iran shot-down an Israeli spy drone on way to Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment plant.
Iran unveiled a new home-made radar system named Fateh 2 and a new droneSadeq 1 during the military parade on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Weekon Sept. 22, 2014.
The Fateh 2 is a long-range radar system equipped with hi-tech, capable of tracing all types of aircraft and small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
The Sadeq 1 drone flies at a maximum altitude of 25,000 feet at speeds above sonic boom. The home-made UAV has been manufactured for testing radar and electronic systems and training assessments.
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