Press TV – March 24, 2024
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Iran has significantly rolled out its defense products in international market, with an American newspaper saying that the country’s defense industry is “going mainstream” at an international arms fair in Qatar with the new flagship advanced product called Gaza drone.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that a model of the Gaza combat drone was exhibited at the Doha fair — the first display of the unmanned aerial vehicle outside Iran.
With a range of 1,243 miles, a 68-foot wingspan, and a satellite link, the Gaza drone can carry 13 precision-guided bombs, the report said, adding that the unmanned aircraft represents “a stepped-up threat to US interests and allies. “
It described the Iranian drone as a rival for the US-made General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper.
“But in Doha, there was no doubt that Iran’s defense industry is going mainstream,” according to the report.
At the Iranian display in Doha, glossy brochures introduced a dozen home-made products, including air-defense missiles and space-rocket launchers, and flyers promoted new anti-ship cruise missiles and radar systems.
One leaflet described Iran’s assault rifles as the best suited “for guerrilla warfare in all climate conditions.”
Since the expiration of a 13-year UN arms embargo in October, Iran has increasingly sold its defense products on the international market.
Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister Mahdi Farahi said in November that the country sold about $1 billion in weapons from March 2022 to March 2023, three times as much as the previous year.
Representatives from Qatar’s state defense contractor Barzan Holdings took a look at Iranian-manufactured assault rifles.
“I am very impressed by their medium-range missile technologies,” said a senior Qatar Air Force officer at the Iran booth.
The report said that Washington had contacted Qatar, home to the biggest US military base in the region, about Iran’s presence at the show.
Iranian military experts and engineers have in recent years made remarkable breakthroughs in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient.
Iranian officials have underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, which are entirely meant for defense and deterrence, and that Iran’s defense capabilities will be never open to negotiations.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has on several occasions called for efforts to boost Iran’s defense capabilities.
The only resemblance of these drones to America’s drones is what they look like, as Iran won’t use theirs to strike then double-tap weddings and funerals to kill someone who may be there, maybe not.
That’s showing those damn yankees..ain’t it..That’s the way to beat the affirmative action Great Satan transitioning poofters..yesiree.. Selling weapons…Lot’s of ’em ..to whomever..and damn quick..
Of course their weapons actually work, so Allah willing (PBUH) they can ‘waste’ more useless eaters than the gimps in the district of criminals… and maybe even the useless eaters gimping in the district of criminals…killing peasants…
There’s nothing that says multi-polarity better than dead peasants, dead empires… and full pockets..(if they have pockets in those dresses)…
Well done..
NB: I wonder who the ‘shareholders’ are….I bet it isn’t the Prophets… but it’s likely they are swizzlers….
No doubt that’s the in joke..with the so called ‘Gaza’ radio controlled toy…
Don’t you think?..I mean it seems plausible because I haven’t seen any of General Jumbos high tek toyz helping those being murdered…coming to their rescue so to speak..like the seventh cavalry.. who incidentally didn’t do too well..
Although some imbeciles that work for the CiA on t’unterwebz..are telling me the unfolding slaughter is high tek drone resistance…and any day now IS-RA-EL will pack up it’s soiled nappies and go home..even though that home is the one they stole from the people they are finishing up murdering..and geographically the same place…
so it’s all a bit of a riddle really..perhaps these swizzlers will jump the Texas border and make their way to the hive in Noo Yoyk with the chinky army and their cannibal janissaries..
This is the sort of ‘winning’ that leaves 60,000 and counting… dead…CiA winning..
.. so it must be True…