FARAS-2, FARNAS SHAHIN, FARNAS GHASEDAK AND FARNAS NAZER UAV IRANIAN
The private Asr-e Talai Company has introduced a 4 kg handlaunched mini UAS called Alamdar. The private Farnas Company develops a low cost hand launch model called Black Eagle, a solar powered UAS and several rotary wing UAS. The private Faraz Asia Technologies Company has introduced a UAS named Faraz-2. Faraz-2 is a hand-launched surveillance mini UAS with an endurance of 30 minutes and capable of transmitting real time video with two cameras up to a range of 10 km. It is back-packable and can be used for short range surveillance missions.
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently announced the force had in its possession three different and virtually intact American and UK unmanned aircraft, which had either crashed or been shot down inside Iran. He reported that that the aircraft were under study and were being reverse-engineered. Iranian governmental protests identified one «alien» unmanned aircraft as a Shadow 200
(RQ-7), which it said crashed 37 miles inside Iran in Ilam Province at sunset on July 4, 2008. A second protest letter said that on Aug. 25, 2008 a UK Hermes-450 aircraft crashed near Khoram Abad, about 125 miles inside Iran. The capture of these aircraft caused some new developments in field of fixed wing UAS in Iran, pushing the boundaries of sensors, engines and autonomy technology in Iran.
A final development worth mentioning, is a new generation of unmanned aircraft with a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), which was recently announced by the Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, who called it an «important achievement.» The new UAS could range as far
east as India and as far west as the Mediterranean, and to the south over the Arabian Peninsula and to the north over much of central Asia and the Caucasus.
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