{"id":21103,"date":"2025-01-28T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/irgc-unveils-highly-advanced-gaza-drone-during-major-drill\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:54:08","slug":"irgc-unveils-highly-advanced-gaza-drone-during-major-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-unveils-highly-advanced-gaza-drone-during-major-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC unveils highly advanced \u2018Gaza\u2019 drone during major drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5351938.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has revealed its latest technological achievement, the Shahed-149 &#8220;Gaza&#8221; drone, during an expansive military exercise known as Great Prophet Authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Shahed-149 \u201cGaza\u201d stands out with its impressive 21-meter wingspan and a payload capacity of 500 kilograms, allowing it to carry a variety of advanced munitions, including precision-guided bombs and surveillance equipment. The drone\u2019s capabilities include a cruising speed of 215 km\/h, an impressive flight endurance of up to 35 hours, and the ability to reach altitudes of 10,668 meters (35,000 feet), making it highly suited for both reconnaissance and strike missions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Its operational range spans 4,000 kilometers, and it can strike targets within a 1,000-kilometer radius. With the ability to operate at high speeds, the Shahed-149 is poised for swift response in strategic military operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Equipped with the Sadid-345 precision-guided glide bombs, the Gaza drone is capable of carrying out highly accurate strikes on both stationary and moving targets. The bombs feature GPS-assisted navigation and electro-optical guidance systems, ensuring precision with a margin of error between 2.5 and 5 meters. The Sadid-345 bombs are designed with a warhead containing H6 explosives, optimized for anti-armor and anti-personnel operations, creating a lethal blast radius of 30 meters upon detonation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In a successful demonstration of its capabilities, the IRGC Aerospace Force used the Gaza drone to precisely destroy eight targets during the exercise, marking the first operational use of the drone in a military context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Additionally, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the IRGC Navy, shared that during the ongoing naval drills in the Persian Gulf, Iran\u2019s domestically developed drones successfully launched AI-powered missiles, showcasing the growing sophistication of Iran\u2019s military technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/509150\/IRGC-unveils-highly-advanced-Gaza-drone-during-major-drill\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has revealed its latest technological achievement, the Shahed-149 &#8220;Gaza&#8221; drone, during an expansive military exercise known as Great Prophet Authority. The Shahed-149 \u201cGaza\u201d stands out with its impressive 21-meter wingspan and a payload capacity of 500 kilograms, allowing it to carry a variety of advanced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[294,7343,10,35,13],"class_list":["post-21103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drone","tag-gaza-drone","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}