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Iran: the new stealth and suicide drones

Tehran, Iran - For spying, reconnaissance operations, data collection and shootings

Iran announced it has started mass producing and using a stealth drone (an UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, remotely operated vehicle), with a range of 700 kilometres that it claims is undetectable to radars. "We have built a drone with a more than 700-kilometre range which can collect information and shoot films", the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi. "The drone...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 73962
Rome, Italy, 02/14/2007 12:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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