Thank you Barack 'Hussein' Obama - Iran claims to have domestically produced drone.(JPost).Less than four months after confiscating a US drone that went down in its territory, Iran has domestically produced a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the Shaparak (Butterfly), semi-official Iranian news agency Press TV reported on Saturday.
The drone has an operational radius of 50 kilometers and a flight ceiling of 4,572 meters, Press TV quoted Reza Danandeh Hakamabad, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, as saying on Friday.He added that the aircraft has the capability to fly non-stop for three-and-half hours and can carry an 8 kilogram payload.
Powered by a two-cylinder engine, the Iranian drone is equipped with cameras which can submit surveillance images to the base on the ground, according to the report.
Iran claimed to have shot down a US RQ-170 Sentinel drone that was flying over its airspace in December, later saying that they had actually commandeered the UAV's navigation system, making it land in Iranian territory.
US military officials said that the drone went down due to technical difficulties while on a surveillance mission, denying that Iran had actively brought the craft down.Iran displayed the US drone on television, vowing to "reverse-engineer" the UAV to build its own drone.Hmmmm.....Why would you destroy a drone if you can donate it intact to Iran?Read the full story here.
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