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Mohajer-6

Iran's twin-boom multirole ISTAR/strike UAV — a runway-operated, 12-hour endurance platform armed with precision glide bombs and Almas missiles, exported to Russia, Venezuela, Sudan and others, and seeing combat from Ukraine to the Caribbean.

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Iran’s twin-boom multirole ISTAR/strike UAV — a runway-operated, 12-hour endurance platform armed with precision glide bombs and Almas missiles, exported to Russia, Venezuela, Sudan and others, and seeing combat from Ukraine to the Caribbean.

Overview

The Qods Mohajer-6 (Persian: مهاجر-6) is a single-engine, twin-boom uncrewed aerial vehicle that bridges tactical intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) with light precision strike. First shown publicly in 2016, it sits in the lower end of the medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) class — roughly comparable in weight and armament to the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 — and has become Iran’s most widely exported combat drone, according to Wikipedia. Russia, Venezuela, Sudan and Ethiopia all operate the type, and it has seen intense use across the Ukrainian and Sudanese theatres.

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