The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had launched a massive drone military drill involving tens of unmanned aerial vehicles Thursday.
The drill involved a fleet of 50 drones modeled after the US’ RQ-170 Sentinel, one of which was captured by Iran in 2011, as well as a number of other UAVs, which were launched from bases as far as 1,000 kilometers away from the target located at Bani Farur island in the Persian Gulf. It was the largest Iranian military exercise of this kind to date, the IRGC said in a statement.
All drones involved in the drill successfully bombed the designated target at the same time.
“For the first time, 50 Iranian drones on the RQ-170 US Sentinel model operated with a number of assault and combat drones,” Iran’s Fars News reported.