Iran continues to develop and expand its capability to deploy and produce drones. Iran boasts that it develops this capability with the help of lessons drawn from warfare in different world arenas. The reporter said the smaller UAVs are equipped with missile and bomb systems developed in Iran and electronic-warfare systems. Baqeri said that Iran had developed a Heydar-2 cruise drone that could be launched from a helicopter. Iran will also use manned systems as launch platforms for its autonomous weapons systems.

Source: New York Times May 31, 2022 19:09 UTC