UAVs of the Revolutionary Guards for a range of 2,000 km: The report that worries the security system
Released satellite images left no room for doubt - the UAV district that was attacked last month in an attack attributed to Israel was severely damaged.
"UAV use is worrying but has a price"
Amir Bohbot
22/03/2022
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 12:42 p.m.
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In the video: Documentation of the downing of two Iranian drones by the "mighty" planes (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Satellite images released on the networks left no room for doubt that the drone district in Iran that was attacked last month was badly damaged in an attack attributed to Israel.
However, the Israeli defense establishment is still concerned about dozens of long-range UAV production and launch sites operating in Iran. It is estimated that there are more than 30 production, storage and launch sites for UAVs in the service of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards deployed throughout the country.
This, while the radius of some of the drones reaches a range of 2,000 kilometers - to Israel.
According to the Alma Institute's report, some of the UAV production plants are directly owned by the Revolutionary Guards, and not only have business relations with them. It also shows that the Iranian UAV manufacturing industry is not affected by international sanctions, Tim in the Middle East.
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"Look for launch and storage sites and hit there."
Map from the Alma Institute report (Photo: Official website, Alma Institute)
Many of the components used to make the drones appear to be easily purchased online - including Chinese engines. Some of the purchases are made through procurement agents, who live in Western countries. It is carried out through Iranian diplomatic mail, in accordance with the confession of two operatives during their trial in 2020 that they purchased parts of UAVs from 2009 to 2013 in the United States and handed them over to Hezbollah.
The head of the Alma Center's research department, Tal Barry, said that in addition to sites uncovered by the Iranian opposition movement as early as 2021, we are aware of about twenty different sites of UAV operations in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Look for launch and storage sites and hit there, "he noted.
The use of Iranian drones is worrying but has a price.
Attack on an Iranian UAV hangar (Photo: Official website, Walla!)
One of the
most prominent UAV sites is located in Kashan, north of Isfahan.
In Iran it is the island of Qasham.
The port is located southwest of the city of Masan and at this site there is an array of suicide bombers of the "Shahad" type. According to foreign publications, drones were launched from the site to hit merchant ships in the Gulf of Oman.
Another UAV site is located at Konark Civil Airport - located east of the city of Chebahar in southern Iran.
Other sites are located at the airports: Bender Abbas, Kohghadak, Gunbad, Jakigur, Koshaki, and the Madan Air Force Base.
"According to foreign publications, within less than 24 hours of launching the drones from the Iranian base in Karmanshah province, it was bombed," security officials said.
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