Alwaght- Iranian armed forces have skillful personnel to pilot and maintain its locally designed and manufactured drones, US media reported.
The US Military Journal discussed the use of military drones by Iranian armed forces and utilizing them to monitor border crossings especially for occasions like Arbaeen when millions of Iranian pilgrims traveled to holy cities of Karbala and Najaf in Iraq.
“Iran continues to use local drones especially in places like Mehran border crossing with Iraq which was a particularly insecure location during Saddam era,” the journal writes.
Different units of Iranian armed forces use their unique kind of drones which are routinely used for surveillance missions. This proves that drone have become a domestic tool in the forces. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards even have personnel specialized for piloting and maintaining these drones that identify any threat by direct transmission of pictures, the journal says.
Popular Science was another US journal that reported on Iranian drone technology by introducing a locally designed anti-drone rifle.
To catch drones, police and militaries are experimenting with everything from eagles to lasers. Yet in battlefields like northern Iraq, the answer is neither avian capture nor directed light: it is radio frequencies generated by antennas and pointed at the drones. The latest is an Iranian design, the report says.
The anti-drone rifle was unveiled during a military exercise by Iran’s army. It can lock onto an enemy drone, and then “disrupt its operation or even hack the aircraft and force it to land safely.”
The United States has no monopoly on anti-drone technology. As conventional military forces plan to outfit every squads with its own flying scout, anti-drone weapons may become as common on the battlefields of the 21st century as anti-tank weapons were in the 20th.
