DUBAI: Iran on Wednesday launched exercises to test its combat and surveillance drones, state media reported, amid US enterprises over the possible force of Iranian- made unmanned aircraft to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine.
The two- day war- games will involve 150 drones and will cover Iran’s Gulf seacoast and utmost of its home, state TV reported. The country’s air- defences and “ electronic warfare ” capabilities will also be tested against mock adversary drones.
Iran and the indigenous forces it backs have decreasingly reckoned in recent times on drones in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf.
The United States said before this month that Russian officers were being trained in Iran as part of an agreement on the transfer of drones between the two countries, and indicted Tehran of planning to supply hundreds of unmanned aircraft to Moscow for use in Ukraine. Iran’s foreign minister denied the claim last month, including in a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Iran has developed a large domestic arms assiduity in the face of transnational warrants and vetoes that bar it from importing numerous munitions.
Western service judges say Iran occasionally exaggerates its munitions capabilities, though enterprises about its ballistic dumdums contributed towards Washington in 2018 leaving Tehran’s 2015 nuclear pact with world powers.
