🔆 Karrar Combat Drones
✅ Iran recently unveiled advanced Karrar combat drones armed with air-to-air missiles, enhancing its air defence capabilities.
✅ It is an Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) developed by Iran.
✅ It is the first long-endurance, combat-capable Iranian drone.
✅ It will be strategically deployed along border areas, providing air defence units with the capability to intercept and neutralize hostile aerial threats at significantly reduced costs compared to traditional manned fighter sorties.
▪️Features:
✅ The Karrar drone, which was first introduced in 2010, has an operational range of up to 1,000 kilometres (620 miles).
✅ It has a maximum speed granted by its turbojet installation of 560 miles per hour.
✅ It reportedly boasts a service ceiling altitude of 47,000 feet.
Lacking any retractable or fixed undercarriage, the Karrar is launched via rocket-assist (with a catapult launching rail) and is recovered by way of a parachute-retarded freefall.
✅ It has been equipped with the Majid thermal missile with a range of 8 kilometres.
✅ The Iranian-made Majid air defence missile features advanced thermal and optical seekers, enhancing its tracking and interception capabilities.
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