Iran’s Water-Skimming Suicide Drone

iran-suicide-droneIran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has claimed to have developed a ‘suicide drone’ capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets both at sea and on land.

The drone is reportedly designed to fly as low as two feet above the water at a speed of around 160mph but can reach an altitude of 900 meters.

It has apparently been developed primarily for maritime surveillance and not designed to be armed with missiles.

However, the Tasnim news agency, which is close to the Guards said: ‘But it can carry heavy payloads of explosives for combat missions to launch suicide attacks.

‘Flying at a high cruising speed near the surface of the water, the aircraft can collide with the target and destroy it, either a vessel or an onshore command center.’

As with previous drone announcements by Iran, the news agency released photographs of the aircraft on the ground, but no footage of it flying.

The agency added: ‘It has an advanced military camera with the capability of being used at night and during the day, as well as the possibility of being used in damp sea conditions.’

Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria recently showed off their drones in a propaganda film

Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria recently showed off their drones in a propaganda film

It comes after ISIS fighters in Iraq have bought drones which are for sale on Amazon and used them against their enemies, killing two Kurdish militiamen and injuring two French special forces soldiers earlier this month.

Two Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and two French paratroopers wounded after an ISIS drone exploded after it was brought back to a base near Erbil in northern Iraq to be examined.

A US military official has said while it was not clear where ISIS had acquired the drones, they were clearly planning to use them as remote controlled bombs as they tried to defend their territory from the advance of the Iraqi army, Kurdish militia and Syrian regime forces.

Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, US military spokesman in Baghdad, said the incident on October 2 was a ‘Trojan Horse’ attack.

He said the device had apparently been carrying C-4 explosives, batteries, and probably had a timer on it.

Col Dorrian said: ‘There’s nothing very high tech about them. They can just buy those as anybody else would. Some of those are available on Amazon.’

Source: Daily Mail

One comment

  1. The Fact that they brought the thing back to the base with the explosives attached, is in my opinion a classic case of evolution in action. While you might consider this a Crass Statement, in reality it is not. The enemy who did not want to allow any evidence to remain should the drone fail to deliver and detonate, set a denial timer. Many area denial weapons have a deactivate or detonate timer. Why these individuals failed to follow even the most basic safety procedures let alone common sense, is beyond me.

    Really, if this did not kill people it would have been comedy gold.

    Score two for the other side. Perhaps we should learn from this?

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