Eventually, a video allegedly showing the copy of Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) drone manufactured by reverse-engineering of U.S. Sentinel drone captured in December 2011 was released.
On Nov. 10, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, announced that a domestic version of the RQ-170 drone, modified to carry out both bombing and reconnaissance missions, had made its maiden flight.
“The footage of its flight will be released soon,” he told reporters.
Eventually, a video showing the copy of the Sentinel flying somewhere over Iran, filmed both from the ground and from an accompanying helicopter has been released.
The footage of the flying drone looks genuine; what seems to be a bit weird is the sequence of the RQ-170 landing on the runway: more than a UAV, the aircraft moves and reacts to the remote pilot’s input as a small remotely piloted scale model….
Since the first prototype was a smaller copy of the Sentinel (60% the size of the original RQ-170) which flew about four months ago, one might wonder whether the landing drone depicted in the footage is not the full scale replica but the smaller original prototype.
Furthermore, some frames of the landing video seem to be computer generated.
Judge by yourself at min 06:49.
H/T to Soufiane Nourredine for the heads-up
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Embarrassing.
Most of you commenting with your disinformation are hezraeli paid
shills,now with that being said, lets look at some recent facts. There
is no doubt that Iranian propaganda machine and their introduction of
new tech are rather amateurish.It does not really matter at this point
whether it is a 60% prototype or not . The fact is , unless you are
blind, it is a flying wing.
even if small … the aerodynamics seems to be working splendidly … at
one point in the video, it was pulling at least 5-6 G’S in a very swift
fashion … vehicle rolled on its longitudinal axis on left and then
pitched up almost instantaneously and there seemed to be no resultant
drop or leg between these two motions … aerodynamics are perfect and
are for sure being run with a proper control logic (basic fbw) … which
is impressive indeed as Iran has never flown a wing before … I may be
thinking of future but this can result in a high tech aerial combat
platform in distant future …
overall not a bad project but the way it was presented made it almost
certain that who ever is running these shows hasnt learned anything from
Saeghe and specially Hamaseh and Qaher jokes … i want to know who is
behind these 1:X scaled models and animated videos being presented as
real warfare machines … when you do these things to make your
superiors happy instead of even thinking about what kind of impact it
will have on the overall scientific credibility of a nation then you are
one selfish idiot instead of a professional …
Good project … Credible machine … bad presentation an unveiling
I can buy these capabilities at Wal-Mart. Not impressive one bit. Not even for a toy. They could have saved all of the embarrassment and purchased Chinese UAV’s.
Hesa should really get in contact with the manufacturers of AirHogs. That would boost their capabilities vastly. Best wishes Iran..
Poor project… Poor video… Poor Iranians.
Bullshit
This website has become a place for iranian military propaganda.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I see you up voted your self!!!! what are you doing propagandizing your self.
The Iranian revolution is coming!
Well obviously its only flying at low level as the Futaba RC transmitter wont reach so far. Need line of sight. This video has lightened my day.
It’s Computer designed graphic because they crashed the drone during landing…