Iran's army has deployed a suicide drone for the first time
in massive ongoing military drills near the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the
entrance to the Persian Gulf.
Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the army's chief commander of
ground forces, is quoted by Iranian state media Saturday as calling the
unmanned aircraft "a mobile bomb." The drone, named Yasir according
to one Iranian newspaper, has been designed to plunge into aerial and ground
targets, as well as ships.
The six-day military exercise is being carried out over
527,000 square miles in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, Sea of Oman and
the eastern part of the Persian Gulf, through which one-fifth of the world's
oil supply passes.
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