Iranian Reverse Engineered ScanEagl Iran officialy unveiled its reverse engineered version of Boeing ScanEagle UAV. Commander of Ir...
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| Iranian Reverse Engineered ScanEagl |
Commander of Iran’s Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan unveiled the UAV dubbed ‘Yasir’.
Interestingly, the Iran have modified the ScanEagle, by adding a twin-tail boom empennage and an inverted v-tail rudder similar to that of the RQ-7 Shadow.
The drone can fly at an altitude of 15,000 feet, has a flight endurance of eight hours and effective operational radius of 200 kilometers.
The portable uav, is equipped with state-of-art and light cameras for reconnaissance.
In December 2012, Iran stated it had captured an American ScanEagle that allegedly violated its airspace over the Persian Gulf. Iran later stated it had also captured two other ScanEagle's, which the U.S. Navy denied.
The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle is a small, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing.
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| Boeing ScanEagle |
