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Iran has announced shooting down dozens of Israeli and American drones since the start of the attack on its territories on February 28, releasing videos confirming some of the aerial kills.
Two of the videos released by the Islamic Republic shows Israeli Hermes 900 combat drones getting hit. Another shows a larger Israeli drone, either a Heron or an Eitan.
The Hermes 900 is a medium-size drone with an endurance of over 30 hours and a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. It was designed by Israel’s Elbit to carry out reconnaissance, surveillance, communications relay and attack missions.
Meanwhile, the slightly larger Heron has an endurance of 52 hours and a service ceiling of 32,000 feet. It was designed by Israel’s IAI for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance missions. The drone is also reported to be capable of holding armed roles.
The Eitan, also known as the Heron TP, is a larger version of the Heron with an endurance of over 30 hours and a service ceiling of up to 45,000 feet.
Iran apparently used one of its short-range air defense systems, like the Azarakhsh, Majid or Tondar, to take down these drones.
All three systems utilize anti-aircraft missiles equipped with onboard imaging infrared seekers. The Azarakhsh has an engagement range of ten kilometers, while the range of the Majid is limited to eight. Meanwhile, the Tondar, unveiled last year, is said to be capable of engaging targets as far as 15 kilometers away.
It is also very possible that the Islamic Republic used one of its missile-drone hybrid interceptors to take down some of the drones.
One such system, identified by the United States military and intelligence as the “358” anti-aircraft weapon, is reported to have a range of up to 150 kilometers. Iran also unveiled last year a smaller interceptor dubbed Qaem-118. It is reported to have a range of around 25 kilometers. Interceptors are also equipped with onboard imaging infrared seekers.
It’s worth noting that Iran had claimed shooting down multiple U.S. MQ-9 Reaper combat drones. While there is still no visual confirmation, a large drone recorded falling from the sky over the Islamic Republic while engulfed in flames on March 3 appeared to be very similar in design to the MQ-9. Further confirmation is needed, however.
The MQ-9, developed by General Atomics, is primarily used to collect intelligence, but has the ability to conduct pinpoint strikes. The drone can operate for more than 27 hours and reach altitudes of over 25,000 feet.
While the U.S. and Israel have largely succeeded in neutralizing Iran’s long and medium-range air defenses, the Islamic Republic’s short-range systems are still very much active.
These systems pose a real threat to fighter jets and bombers, but by taking down drones they hinder the reconnaissance capabilities of both the U.S. and Israel, and increase the cost of the war in a significant manner. A Hermes 900 for example could cost as much as $30 million.
With time, Iran could reactivate the upper tier of its air defense network, at least to set up ambushes for fighter jets or bombers.
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this is fucking awesome..
fuck this abbas araghchi, iran’s foreign minister. he’s either stupid or a spy. he’s responsible for all the mess and election of new supreme leader today, which was bombed by satanyahu.
this dog araghchi led two negotiatons with jews which resulted in a mess.
where and when was bombed the election of the new supreme leader?
nobody was there they are voting remotely. but don’t worry there is a surprise waiting for everyone that you never expected to see in your lifetime.
fyi apparently the voting was done remotely, precisely for that reason. unfortunately. iran still appears to have no strategic objectives, least of all supporting those that have supported iran.
i predicts that iran’s ability to launch projectiles will be significantly reduced within the next 24 hours. wait and see shock and awe is coming and there’s a lot of hurts for the iranian terror regime.
sioux, apaches, etcaetera, till the last mohican are applauding you.
they do not understand this. you can stand them under the gallows, and they have done nothing wrong. its only to kill them.
predict what you like. joo central in tel aviv is being flattened. the amerikunts are being hunted in the quisling gulf countries, which are being severely punished. hormuz is closed. gas rose by 50% yesterday. chumpo is whining and begging for a ceasefire – day two! the jooz/ amerikunts are losing already. in a few days they will be begging putin/ xi/ the un/ anybody to save them. the genocidal zionist terror regime is going down.
of course, you don’t want ‘shock and awe’ right at the start of the conflict, when you have some element of surprise, but some days later when your drones fall from the sky like flies, you and your ‘allies’ are given a bloody noses and you are making everything possible to make everything worse for yourself. makes sense to morons, i guess.
go to hell, nazi. you are on the wrong continent, mass murdering the jews this time. you should know, that my fingers are itching for to end the chizophrenic terrorists in north america once for all. the solution to all wars should be the lending out of mr putin’s suitcase to any country attacked by a aggressor.
didn’t they deem mathematics racist in your home country? would that not impact your ability to make a correct prediction?
the only shock and awe you are going to notice is in your wallet next year or do you think drumpf and bibi are giving you a share for your wishful thinking?
i only want one thing, that the alawites pay for their dirty betrayal of their allies iran and the brics. i want the next president of russia to hand them over to the hague court or better yet to al-qaeda.what they have done is so heinous that they deserve only death and destruction and nothing but death and destruction. there was a time when i believed in the brics and the alawites. now i want all the alawites dead. i want them to suffer in prison and be tortured,
boy, simplify, you want to see everyone dead.
what makes you think that? what are your sources? the main culprits are usil and their takfiri proxies. fake jihad made in usa: they mostly attack the enemies of the enemies of islam. most of the terrorists made by usil and their puppet regimes. wikileaks leaked cables to hillary clinton alq is our side. during op timber sycamore takfiri attacks were coordinated with usil and healed in occupied golan hospital.
because what they did to iran with their betrayal is unforgivable.they betrayed the brics and iran. they betrayed their fight against al-qaeda and isis and i will never forgive them for that.i will forever wish them only death and suffering and nothing else. i hope that a new president of russia will come and then they will pay for their dirty deeds. and for those alawites who remained in syria, i hope all their crops dry up and their sheep eat cacti. to die along with their livestock from hung
its china’s carrier killer, and russias sneakyness you mean ? it looks like you want to scrub of your jewiness on others. exactly what the nazis did.
but israel said all the air defense of iran was destroyed.
you have to keep the people under media sedation. this is probably why bibi flew away to hide. someone must direct hasbara war efforts
yes apparently bibi’s in germany. ironic that he feels safe there isn’t it
it proves that the holohoax was all invented by the zionist mafia. also proves who controls germany.
americunts inferior species only qualified to scrub hebrew toilets
no, whats invented was to call russians and europeans jews. thanks to the stupid christianity, they felt sorry for them self, and exported the nazis, in fake form, calling them self jews, to palestine. of course, the welcome committee of cannibalistic khazars, was already exported by nazi germany, before the war. religious people can believe anything, white africans, and such. ask south africa.
the child killers in southfront erase the true history of the nazis, and their export to palestine, before, and after the war. the only thing that variate, are who are called jews. the nazis use sunday school, and the psychosis in christians, to call anything “jews”. christians are only a form of sneaky mass murderers, for example by fear of “viruses”, or by blame europeans or russians for to be jews. they believe it them self nowadays !
the mass murder in the holocaust are true, except it did not harm the jews, the palestinian. is this so hard to understand ? when newtons laws are not valid in north america ? you have never meet a car joker ? white people slaughter, and get slaughtered, because they believe in the bible, insanity. its probably because they stand and look at their women burned alive.
not strange at all. why cant everybody see the obvious, that the nazis get exported to palestine ???
they also tells that they are jews. was it not herrman göring that write something about the big lie ?
iran has developed the iron beam discombobulater and knows how to use it ?
i think dump sat on his own personal discombobulater a few too many times and it affected his orange clown head.
americunts are an inferior scum species
homer, go to school in china, or somewhere on protected ground
yes. have not turn into humans, despite they had since 1492 to do it. its only to kill them. they mass murder in the hospitals.
they make quite expolosion when they crash. they must be like pretty large ones.
the united snakes need to stay top dog, but china and russia don’t like this, so happy trails for our partners in the cabal
the chinese guy on youtube, tells that china betrayed iran, by dont allow them the carrier killer missile. russia and china are two mähä, that dont attack the evil, and dont tell the truth about 9/11, and about mass murder in the hospitals. snake oil countrys.
according to lenin, imperialism are united snakes.
maybe because of that the war against iran now are called ” a special military operation” 😂 united snakes. so it goes, when russia cant address the root cause.
now let putin explain why he allows these kind of foreign drones to fly over and provide targeting information to the ukrainian who then attack russian territory.
payed by wef ? use windows ? yes, what operative does russians use 😂 its 25 years since i started to understand, that this shit are a direct line to cia and mossad. like pentyl, detonating cord 🥰 it goes two ways.
nobody are more scared than a nuclear army 😂
southfront uses recycled footage from a very long time ago. nothing new.
in short, southfront is a fakenews peddler hehehehhh
you are affraid of me! you should be.
@theyoungturks; and heeree come the christian cannibals 🤡 jesus are called down by the murderous “american” cannibal “military”. did not help their colony germany at stalingrad, we have to see if he like genocide of the real jews this time.
the whole package of “be nice” in the bible, have nothing at all to do with 1000 years of reality. instead white people get conquered by a extremely evil force, that maybe, maybe not, broke their spirit. the last nail in the coffin are probably electronically terror, high frequency radiation, that get bees to fall dead, and will destroy humans ability to have a coincidence, if something of that are left after christianity.
i wonder if russia believe that showing a gun to a mad dog helps ? harry macfie did what must be done, confronted by a mad dog. the animal are sick ! sick of evilness.
one dead north korean by the nazis aggression war, and north koreas missiles start flying. no “un” meeting, no “negotiations”. thanks, maybe we will see the end of the nazis this time. this is internationalism in real time, what russia are doing, is very unclear, for to say the least.
pascal: “christian psychosis behind the war” exactly, the satanic cannibalistic christians continue their policy of burning women alive, by bombing girls school, and killing 86 year old men, while russia kill slavs, for to not harm hospital murderers. as i have tell, the white regimes are so evil, that most people cant look at them, they close their eyes, and reiterate a virtual reality from sunday school.
“us” carrier under attack, and then flee, for full machine. sink them ! force them to send a trick movie about “nukes”. and then erase them from the surface.
the lebensraum nazis, faked ethnicity from germany and russia, are told to evacuate lebanon by hezbollah. judging from north america, it should be better to kill all farmers, because nazis are what they are; they want to make humans slaves, and feed them like cattle, and slaughter them like cattle, fear of “viruses” are only one method.