Never said that, I said this particular drone is similar in its role.
Then why are you posting it? I asked you for an example of a chinese UAV better than Shahed-136 for a similar price like you claimed and you chose to mention that drone. I did not ask you to post any Chinese loitering UAV you could find on google. Are you confused?
If you think range is the only factor in making better drones, then you're a fool.
Range allows you to compare drones in similar classes, like we would do with ballistic missiles. If this fact is going over your head then perhaps these discussion are way too much for you.
This isn't a debate club, you can easily look for it yourself.
It is a defence forum where people come for defence related discussion, you made a claim and are unable to back it up and instead are trying to escape via "google it" response. Google was not the one who made the claim, you did.
Iran didn't invent loitering munitions, despite what some members here claim. They've been around for a long time.
Who said Iran invented them? Seems to me you're resorting to strawman arguments.
Lets try this again.
You claimed the Chinese have better drones than Shahed for similar price and I asked you for 1 single example. So far you have done nothing but attempt to deflect.
Next time, don't make a statement without having prior evidence for the claim. You don't make a claim and then go around hoping there is evidence for it. This is just embarassing.
false.
It was stated by an important official from intelligence ministry, initially published by Mashreghnews and then was repeated by almost all Iranian news agencies. Intelligence ministry doesn't stay quiet about false quotes from their side.
Recently we heard it from IRGC guy who was explaining the products in IRGC museum with a little more details too.
Exactly. I am not sure why people are acting surprised. The Chinese have on multiple occasions in the past purchased systems from the likes of Russia when they already have very similar product. There can be various reasons why the Chinese want to get their hands of the Shahed-136. The most obvious one is they do not have anything with that level of capability.
Moreover, a battle tested system will always be a more attractive to customers than one which is not. This is why as soon as a system shows to be effective in a conflict buyers start lining up for it. How something works in practice is much more important than how it performs on paper.
