Iran successfully tests new homegrown suicide drone
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force successfully tested a new suicide drone, dubbed Me’raj 532, designed and manufactured by Iranian experts.
General Ali Kouhestani, head of IRGC Ground Force’s Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization (RSSJO), said the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a piston engine has a one-way range of 450 kilometers.
The kamikaze drone, he added, is capable of flying up to a height of 12,000 feet for 3 hours and taking off from a vehicle.
“With its 50-kilogram warhead, the drone can hit the desired targets with high accuracy. Additionally, the drone’s design is of the easy set-up type, reducing the time of its preparation and increasing the speed of reaction and use,” Kouhestani told Tasnim news agency.
Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great progress in indigenously developing a broad range of equipment, making the Armed Forces self-sufficient in this regard.