"Military and Martial Plane" Author: Ivan
Recently, according to the " Global Times ", US National Security Advisor Sullivan announced a shocking news at the White House press conference. According to him, intelligence received by the United States shows that the Iranian army is preparing to provide large-scale drones to the Russian army, including a batch of all-in-one drones. It is said that Iran's training to assist the Russian army in mastering drone equipment has begun. In the future, hundreds of different types of drones may be delivered to the Russian army by the Iranian military.
The statement that the Iranian army may provide drones to the Russian army, has different opinions: first, the Iranian diplomatic department came out to speak out on July 13. In an interview with the Italian Republic, the Iranian foreign minister announced that Iran’s policy on the Ukraine issue is to “avoid further deterioration of the situation”, which is considered to be an official denial of the statement that Iran provided drones to Russia;
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But Western media did not seem to buy it. Many Western media speculated that the reason why Russia "seeked for drones" from Iran was related to the fact that the Russian drone performance in Ukraine was not good enough in Ukraine and failed to cause a major blow to the Ukrainian army. They also believed that the use of drones by the Russian army has even fallen behind Iran;
China Rainbow-4B drone is simple to operate and has high reliability, and has received praise from customers from many countries.
In addition to these two views, Ivan has also seen a strange view in some domestic social media groups, believing that the development of Iran's drones depends to a large extent on "a mysterious force in the East". Therefore, perhaps this transaction is essentially the white glove of this "mysterious force".
How did Iranian drones develop?
As for how Ivan evaluates this transaction that was blown up by Western media, how to evaluate the technical level of Iranian drones and compare it with the technology of Russian drones, has the Iranian drone industry really received assistance from the "mysterious power of the East"? Based on what Ivan knows about, there are only four words: That's not the case.
S-300 air defense missile
After all, Iran has been under Western sanctions for a long time, let alone us. Even the S-300PMU2 air defense missile system Iran bought from Russia was not delivered on time. In an attempt to purchase Su-30SM and Su-35S, he only heard the stairs ringing and no one came down. In this case, how could Iran get technical support from a "some mysterious force in the East"? Of course, some civilian technologies may exist, but in terms of military technology involved in sanctions, Ivan believes that we must strictly implement the relevant regulations of United Nations .
Mohajie-6 drone
In short, based on the current technology sources of Iranian drones, they can be roughly divided into the following three aspects: First, related technologies have been obtained from some third world countries. For example, Iran got a small batch of small drones with twin-tail brace configuration from Daniel, South Africa in the early days. On this basis, it broke through the overall and twin-tail brace design difficulties and developed its own "Mohajie" series drones;
Iran completely seized the US military RQ-170 stealth drone and produced a large number of imitations.
Second, we have obtained relevant technology from the United States. After all, in recent years, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has successfully landed the U.S. drone, and the U.S.-made Surveillance and Fighting UAV equipped with Saudi Arabia has been shot down by Houthi armed more than once in .Currently, the American drone models in Iran include the classic models such as RQ-4 "Global Hawk" , the MQ-9 "Death", and even the high-end models such as RQ-170 "Kandahar Monster". So many good things are in the hands of Iran, even if you look at it, their role in the development of Iran's drone industry is incalculable;
During the Iranian "Great Prophet-17" exercise, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Forces launched 12 "Diz Fuller", "Zolfikar" and "Zerzar" ballistic missiles from different positions and directions.
Third, Iran's own technological breakthrough. Judging from the current situation where Iran has made great progress in ballistic missile technology, especially ballistic missile technology with terminal guidance, Iran should have a certain technical foundation and accumulation in drone technology in terms of. For example, Iran has made many achievements in the integrated photoelectric situation awareness equipment of drones, flight control and microwave remote control equipment of drones, and precise guided ammunition carried by drones.
Multiple warheads accurately hit the same target
Therefore, Ivan's viewpoint, Iran's drone technology has little to do with the "mysterious power of the East". It may have the credit for shooting down American drone wreckage and carrying out engineering reverse. But overall, the most important thing for Iranian drone business is that Iranian technicians do their own things and have enough food and clothing. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of Iranians .
How about Iran’s drones put in the world?
Since Iran's drone career has nothing to do with the "mysterious power of the East", many people probably have to doubt it again. With the power of a middle-class country, can the drone created by Iran compare with Russia? It's really possible. To be precise, Iran and the next door to Türkiye , these two countries are about to become the drone duo of Middle East . Whether in terms of the technical level of the drone, model system, and actual application, it should not be underestimated:
Iran displays a new domestic stealth drone
From the analysis of the technical level of the drone, Iran's drones have currently broken through several key technical control points, one is composite material fuselage and wing manufacturing technology, the second is drone flight control technology, the third is the technology of remote control of drones beyond the visual range of sight, and the fourth is the supporting photoelectric detection and precision guided weapon technology.
Russian reporters walked on the "Hunter" drone
After these technical control points were broken, Iran's drones have actually entered the kingdom of freedom of development. Of course, Russia's own drones have also broken through these technical control points, and in some sub-system technologies, such as the power systems of drones, there are some technical advantages over Iranian drones.
However, in terms of model system, the model system of Iranian drones is complete, and the model of the drone is dazzling: according to the currently disclosed Iranian drone models, Iranian drones already have two larger model systems: "Mohajie" and "Witness".
Iran's Mohaj-6 drone is very similar to Turkey's TB-2 drone.
Among them, "Mohajie" is a model system developed relatively early, relatively old, and relatively low maximum take-off weight. The largest "Mohajie-6" drone has a maximum take-off weight of more than 600 kilograms. Its performance is basically at the same level as the TB-2 made in Turkey and the Rainbow-3 type made in my country.
has been upgraded to the Witness of the Satellite Communications-129
Going upwards is the famous "Witness" series. The main model "Witness-129" is a medium-sized all-in-one drone with a fuselage length of less than 10 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 1150 kg, and can carry a load of 300 to 400 kg. The maximum stagnation of the time can reach about 24 hours.
Gaza (Gaza) UAV
. On the medium-sized integrated reconnaissance and attack drone, Iran has also developed a large-scale integrated reconnaissance and attack drone code-named "Gaza". The appearance of this type of drone is very similar to the Winglong-2 integrated reconnaissance and attack drone made in China. It may be the result of reverse engineering based on the US-made MQ-9 drone and combining Iran's self-developed technology. It is said that the maximum takeoff weight reaches more than 3.1 tons, can carry a payload of 600 kilograms, the task height reaches more than 11,000 meters, and the maximum endurance time reaches about 35 hours.
In addition, Iran has a largest boss, a drone code-named "Witness-171". This type of drone is considered to imitate the highly confidential RQ-170 "Kandahar Monster" of the US military. It is estimated that its maximum take-off weight is 3.1 tons. It is not yet clear whether this type of drone is reconnaissance or detection integrated.
Russian Seahawk-10, a drone that is not advanced enough by international standards, has become the product of the technology combination of various countries.
Despite this, the current Iranian drone system is definitely more complete than Russia. After all, in this Ukrainian conflict, Russia has two drones that can be taken out: one is a large model aircraft, that is, the "Seahawk-10" reconnaissance drone equipped for combat teams of various brigades. This type of drone performance is between the US military's "Cloud Shadow" drone and "Big Crow" drone . When used, it uses fixed-length guide rails to launch on site, and can only undertake battlefield surveillance tasks with the tactical depth of the brigade combat team.
There is no problem with the design of Orion. It is mature and practical. The other model is the Russian-made "Orion" detection and attack integrated drone. The level of this type of drone is slightly better than the TB-2 obtained by Ukraine, but it is only equivalent to the level of Iran's "Witness-129". The maximum take-off weight of the aircraft is less than 1,200 kilograms, and the precise guidance weapons equipped with this type of drone are still insufficient, and the number of equipment is even smaller. According to the Russian army's plan, it will not be possible to receive the latest dozens of aircraft until the third quarter. The test flight phase of the
S-70 "Hunter" has not ended
As for the models equivalent to Iran's "Witness-149" and "Witness-171" drones, the Russian army currently has a more complete performance and is ready to fight with the Su-57 fighter in the test flight. But the problem is that this test flight work is far from knowing when it will end. From this perspective, the model system of Russian drones is in an embarrassing situation, and the actual model used is not as good as that of Iran.
Russia may really need Iran's drones
Therefore, after the above analysis, we can find that the topic of Iran hyped by the United States to provide Russia with the topic of "inspection and attacking" drones, and it is really not a problem to find trouble. Iran really has its own unique skills in the field of drones, and the products it has produced are indeed more than Russia's, and may have better performance. At present, on the battlefield of Ukraine's conflict, Russia really lacks the ability to detect and fight the integrated drone.
In the early days of the war, the Ukrainian army's TB-2 detection and attacking drone did cause a lot of trouble to the Russian army...
After all, for the advantage of the battlefield, we have said many times before that the detection and attacking drone is a tactical weapon that can be used to control the battlefield for a long time.Especially for some high-value combat units that are arranged in the depths of the enemy, with strong offense and weak defense, and for logistics convoys with very weak defenses, etc., if the battlefield advantage side can deploy a comprehensive drone for the detection and attack, it can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
China's Reconnaissance-7 UAV
Of course, with the pride of the Russians, Ivan feels that even if Russia really realizes that it does not pay enough attention to the investigation and attack drone, it can only pay off its debts for previous decision-making mistakes, and will not be too stubborn to buy Iran-made investigation and attack drone. After all, I, the Russians, still need face... The only thing we hope now is that Russia can realize the importance of drones to modern warfare and can carry out in-depth drone cooperation with the "Mysterious Force of the East" in the future.
No-detect-7 Flying over Alibuke
