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Breaking: Iran unveils Saeqeh UCAV, shows captured American MQ1 Predator

My point is that there is no reason to make reference to things that divide us! Azari, Kurd, Lur, Tajik, Balouch,..... Your either Iranian or your not! Shamakhani has been serving and defending Iran for more than half of his life! He is Iranian period!

Chill... nobody said he wasn't Iranian. Scythian was making a point that whatever ethnicity you are, all are Iranians and serve their country dutifully and face no discrimination.
 
The Saeghe is a swarm drone, filling the role of the weapon carrier and needs a motherdrone that guides it towards its targets. A S-129 with large powerful optical payload as well as SAR with GMTI or a S-171 with those systems needs to find the targets, identify them and guide a Saeghe towards it. The Saeghe has no own optical system, if used at MANPAD-safe MALE altitude of 15.000 feet+ it needs to know where the target is, launch its Sadid based guided bombs, which then will use their economical un-cooled IR sensors in man-in-the-loop mode to positively identify the target at some 4000 feet and go into terminal auto track mode.

The huge benefit of it over a bomb equipped S-129 is that its much more cost effective and hence more of them can be used in the swarm. I would predict that due to the flying wing design and its lift benefits, a Saeghe can carry the same payload of 4 guided bombs as the S-129, with the same or better on-station loiter time. The difference is that a large Iranian built wankel UAV engine which is cheaper than the S-129's Rotax engine and has much less fuel consumption, would be sufficiently powerful to power the Saeghe.
No foreign Rotax engine, less fuel consumption and no expensive optical payload with the same punch of a S-129. Its a ideal swarm drone.
 
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Chill... nobody said he wasn't Iranian. Scythian was making a point that whatever ethnicity you are, all are Iranians and serve their country dutifully and face no discrimination.
finally somebody got it!!

It was not due for us.. It is to highlight that ethnicity does not matter in Iranian culture and Iran as a whole unlike other Muslim or ME nations... It was to highlight that Iranian no matter Arab or Fars or Kurd serve uniformly... One is Iranian oil minister and an Iranian Kurd... one is Iranian defense minister or the highlight of NSC (national security council) and an Iranian Arab... one is the leader of the whole Persia (Iran) and is an Iranian Azeri...

There are lessons for those who think... Saudi nationals here are welcome to choose tribal life in which the prophet muhammad (pbuh) discouraged where there was no republics or the modern human version where ethnicity and tribe has no weight..
 
Does anyone have the same feeling as I have that Janes seems to have stopped use of sarcastic language when it comes to Iran and is looking at the developments more seriously and less doubtfully?:

http://www.janes.com/article/64262/iran-develops-two-new-uav-types-from-captured-rq-170-sentinel

Iran develops two new UAV types from captured RQ-170 Sentinel
Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
03 October 2016


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A screenshot from Iranian news showing the UAV production line, which appears to show two different types based on the US Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel. Source: SimaNews/YouTube
Iran appears to have developed two 'new' types of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived from the US-built Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured in 2011, state media disclosed on 1 October.

Footage of a production line was aired by SimaNews as part of a wider report to showcase the latest achievements by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) Aerospace Division. The report, which purports to show near-complete UAVs on the line, shows there to be two distinct variants in build.

Of the 13 UAVs on the line, two appear to be near-clones of the RQ-170, featuring the distinctive frontal grilled air intake mounted on the upper body for the single jet engine. The remaining 11 UAVs appear to be more derivative, with only a much smaller air intake visible, suggesting a piston engine/turboprop powerplant rather than a jet.

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One of the two types appears to be a near-clone of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel, featuring a distinctive frontal grilled air intake mounted on the upper body for the single jet engine. (SimaNews/YouTube)

The US-built RQ-170 features a windowed under-fuselage imaging payload, and a similar aperture fitted to an Iranian copy is briefly shown in the footage (the captured RQ-170 was believed to have 'pancaked' into the ground, largely destroying the payload. As such, it is doubtful that the IRGC has been able to fully reproduce the payload in the same way that it has the aircraft itself). As seen in the footage, the secondary type UAV appears to be equipped instead to carry four under fuselage air-to-surface missiles in place of the imaging payload.

According to SimaNews, the UAV type shown on the production line has been named Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) by the IRGC. As the news report only referenced one UAV type having been derived from the RQ-170, it is unclear if this moniker refers to the near-clone surveillance platform, to the derived missile carrier, or to both. Neither is it clear whether both types will enter operational service, or if the near-clone has served as a testbed for the missile carrier.

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Can't see landing gears... They just scaled down the design,don't know why,but they should go for a 300% scale design comparing the original stuff..just manage things like x47, and produce thousands of them...flying them over any city may look likes crazy fireflies roaring for offence. It reminds me COD black ops 2.
Any news on sorfesh mahi ??

But it was a respectful report. I like that.[/QUOTE]
Still they underestimate Iran.their writing says that.whatever,in my earlier days in high school some healthy brats underestimated me lot as weak until I had punched their nose..that's the way people does their things in nowdays.just ignore them..
 
Iranian 'stealth' UAV test site identified

Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence

Weekly07 October 2016A

Video footage of Iran's Simorgh unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) taking off and landing was filmed at Kashan International Airport, according to IHS Jane's geolocation analysis.

Shown by various Iranian TV channels on 1 October, the footage of the aircraft flying at Kashan was the most credible evidence to date to support Iran's claim that it has successfully reverse engineered the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance UAV that crashed in the east of the country in December 2011.

The rest of blah blah...
 
Iranian 'stealth' UAV test site identified

Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence

Weekly07 October 2016A

Video footage of Iran's Simorgh unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) taking off and landing was filmed at Kashan International Airport, according to IHS Jane's geolocation analysis.

Shown by various Iranian TV channels on 1 October, the footage of the aircraft flying at Kashan was the most credible evidence to date to support Iran's claim that it has successfully reverse engineered the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance UAV that crashed in the east of the country in December 2011.

The rest of blah blah...
Crashed !? Yeah sure american supa dupa UAV crash from the 10km above and stay intact.
 
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