Iran has drones capable of traveling 7,000 km: this is in any case what Major General Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, said.
"We have drones that cover 7,000 kilometers, fly, have no pilot and land in the same place [from where they took off] or anywhere else," he said in a speech broadcast on Sunday by state television, without giving additional details.
With these words, the officer wanted to illustrate the technical progress made by the Guardians during a ceremony dedicated to the presentation of a vaccine project against Covid-19 soon to enter the clinical testing phase.
Development of drone programs
General Salami's statement therefore seems to indicate that the Islamic Republic would have drones with a range of 3,500 km.
So far, according to an article published a little over a month ago by the Club of Young Journalists, an agency dependent on state television, the maximum known range of Iranian drones was 2,000 km.
Iran, whose Air Force has an aging fleet made up mostly of American aircraft acquired under the Shah before the 1979 revolution, is developing numerous drone programs.
In July 2019, the Revolutionary Guards announced that they had used drones in a raid against Kurdish fighters based in Iraq and accused by Tehran of "terrorist acts".
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