Jun 22, 2022 · Unlike other Ababil forms, the Qasef-1 is an expendable "loitering munition", tracking for ground targets (ground-based control is via GPS), engaging on-command, and expending itself in a suicidal action.

Apr 21, 2021 · Qasef-2k is a slightly upgraded copy of the Qasef-1 UAV, which is a direct copy of the Iranian Ababil-2. The drone’s operational range is likely around 100km. Brig. Gen. Sari revealed that the Houthis and their allies are now producing one Qasef-2k every day.

A Hezbollah Ababil-2 UAV, twin-tail variant with surveillance payload, on display at Mleeta, Lebanon. This specific drone is described as a Mirsad-1. The HESA Ababil (Persian: ابابیل) is an Iranian family of single-engine multirole tactical unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA).

Apr 6, 2021 · Qasef 2K was unveiled in Yemeni Armed Forces military exhibition entitled as martyr Salih al-Sammad on 7 July 2019. The drone was used against Saudi coalition commanders gatherings in al-Anad Airbase, Lahij province, which killed a number of high rank Saudi coalition officers.

Investigating the supply and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Yemen conflict

the Qasef-1 UAV. First, the Qasef-1 appears to be a type within the Ababil-II family of UAVs, produced by Iran’s Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). The UAV is similar to, but seemingly smaller than, the Ababil-CH and is consistent with descriptions and imagery of a UAV that has been referred to as the Ababil-T.3 The Qasef-1 not ...

Jan 11, 2019 · Houthi and Saleh-aligned forces employ the Qasef-1 to target Coalition MIM-104 ‘Patriot’ surface-to-air missile systems. They do so by crashing the UAVs into the systems’ radar sets (specifically the circular main phased arrays)—directing the UAVs by programming their systems with open-source GPS coordinates of the Patriots’ positions.

The Qasef-1 loitering munition is based on the Ababil-2 airframe and has a 30-kg warhead. It has been solely operated by Yemeni Houthis, who have mostly used it to attack the radar …

This is the Iranian Ababil-T, named the Quasef-1 in Yemen, a High-Explosive (HE), single-engine, multirole, tactical, loitering, Unmanned-Combat-Aerial-Vehicle (UCAV). The Ababil comes in 2 …

Jan 18, 2022 · Farsi language was found enscribed on the wiring of this drone battery from a Qasef-1 UAV indicating its Iranian origins.