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Nice close up shot of the weapons pylons on the mohajer 10.An excellent shot showing the new much larger optronic turret on the mohajer 10,possibly 4 axis stabilised?
Some good shots of the back end as well.
I`m thinking that its almost certainly the Rotax 914 powering this thing,but then again it could be the 915......
Big fan of the powered glide bomb which was a much needed asset.One of the clever features of the Arman glide bombs is their use of staggered overlapping wings,this makes for a more compact design.
I can only think of one other glide bomb that currently uses this feature,the russian fab-500 based UMPK kit,tho this is a rather crudely constructed JDAM analogue.
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Agreed,and with an electric motor it could in theory spend periods gliding and then switching over to battery power in order to maximize its range.Big fan of the powered glide bomb which was a much needed asset.
a liquid fuel rocket engine also can do thatAgreed,and with an electric motor it could in theory spend periods gliding and then switching over to battery power in order to maximize its range.
Thats the beauty of an electric motor,plus its also very quiet.
I suspect that we`ll be seeing a lot more of these types of weapons in the future.
Head of Mohajer-10 design team:^ Mohajer-7 and Mohajer-9 are currently in production, Mohajer-8 has already been produced and is essentially a modernized Mohajer-6
If euipped with Arman-2, which weighs just 5kg more than Arman-1, such drones could stay outside the envelope of most medium-to-long-range ADS while posing a threat to enemy ADS. Arman-2 is basically a smaller 'Small Diameter Bomb' (SDB), or a 'Mini Diameter Bomb'. It's small, relatively light-weight (40 kg), long-range (100 km) and compatible with most Iranian MALE UCAVs, which Iran has a lot of. A small addition (literally) which significantly enhances the offensive capabilities of Iran's fleet of medium-sized drones. Hopefully, MoD will come up with an equivalent to Artesh's Heydar-1/2 ALCM (200 km) for the likes of Mohajer-10 (and maybe -7,-8,-9) and Shahed-129/149, enabling these drones to outrange most modern long-range SAM systems."Image of Ababil 5 drone equipped with Arman 1 long-range bomb.
This bomb, which has a speed between 180 and 200 km/h when released, and with a maximum range of 20 km, protects the carrier drone from anti-aircraft cannons and short-range defense systems." (translation)