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Monday, September 03, 2012

Top Iran official says Tehran to fit self-made long-range drone with missiles

Karrar drone |

Iran's security forces are mounting missiles on its independently produced long-range drones, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding that Iran managed to obtain technical information from the U.S. stealth drone that was captured by the Islamic Republic late last year.

In 2010, Iran unveiled a prototype long-range unmanned bomber, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying at the time that Iran should seek the ability to make preemptive strikes against a perceived threat, although he said it would never strike first.

According to a report in Iran's state-run television network Press TV on Sunday, Iranian forces have already included the Karrar in the recent Prophet 7 military drill that took place in July.

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