Utilizing suicide drones is an asymmetric strategy which both allows Iran to compete on an uneven playing field and poses a risk by allowing operators to pick and choose targets of opportunity over a drone’s multi-hour flight duration
White House ignores new Iranian drone technology that endangers U.S., Israel
Despite President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry's enthusiasm in pushing a nuclear weapons agreement with Iran -- an agreement a majority of lawmakers and Americans oppose -- the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Brigadier General Hossein Salami. boasted to the government-funded Fars News Agency that his military has created advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology.
Gen. Salami claimed that the UAVs, commonly called "drones," are capable flying 3,000 kilometers -- or 1,864 miles -- to conduct stealth reconnaissance or to take part in combat missions, according to the Iranian news media on Wednesday.