During the Zolfaghar-1401 military, Iran presented one of its newest suicide drones, hitting a simulated target.
Iran Presents Its Newest Suicide Drones
The Iranian military launched a loitering munition (a suicide drone) from the Hengam-class landing ship IRIS Lavan as part of its high-power military exercises known as "Zolfaghar-1401." Loitering munitions hit a mock naval base target that the Iranian military still hadn't identified. The social media clip of the drill went viral on the web, reported The EurAsian Times.
Military watchers and experts deduced that the UAV was the Ababil-2 loitering munition. The rocket launch process allows the Ababil class of unmanned aerial vehicles to be launched from the ship's deck.
This system comprises a fuze, a trolly, thrusters, and an attachment mechanism. That is highly portable and simple to set up and detach. After releasing and promoting the simulated attack video, Israeli media reported that the strike was performed on an Israeli military outpost.
Times of Israel disclosed that the mock base was constructed with a similar design layout to the Eilat Naval Base in the Red Sea coast city with the same name, citing unnamed open-source intelligence analysts.
A report also mentions the appearance of a mock-up of an Israeli Navy Sa'ar 6-class corvette adjacent to the evoked target.
According to Army Technology, it is fascinating, as the Israeli Navy tested a ship-mounted variant of its advanced Iron Dome air defense system on the vessel earlier this year. At the time, dangers likely to affect the Navy had been recreated.
Even though it is unexpected for Iran to stimulate a strike on mock Israeli targets, an attack on a military outpost in the Red Sea may be dismaying for the Jewish country.
Zolfaghar-1401 Military Drills Is a Shadow War
Observers claim that Israel and Iran have indeed been involved in a naval "shadow war" in recent times, in which vessels affiliated to each nation were attacked in a series of tit-for-tat confrontations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
The capacity of Iran to rapidly launch a loitering munition or a swarm of these expendable UAVs out of a ship deck. Nevertheless, it might represent a significant threat to Iran's opponents in the Middle East, such as Israel, the Gulf Arab nations, and US military sites.
Although each of these nations is equipped to the teeth with contemporary air defenses that could take down incoming drones, the price gap will indeed prove to be a hassle, as evidenced in the Ukraine war.
One problem is the cost of shooting down the cheap Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones deployed by Russia is draining the coffers and arms stockpiles. The west relies on expensive systems that Russia is exhausting to failure, straining the west.
As Iran Demos its newest suicide drone, the Zolfaghar-1401 Military Drills are held, the US and its allies are especially uneasy.
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