Iran’s Drone Threat

(New York, N.Y.) – This week, Iran’s Army is performing a large-scale, two-day drone exercise that includes a variety of military assignments carried out by drones flying both short-range and long-range missions. The exercise will use drones from the Army Ground Force, Air Force and Navy to carry out joint missions to test “combat, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare capabilities.” The exercise will also feature “suicide drones,” which represent a severe threat to U.S. interests in the region.

United Against Nuclear Iran’s (UANI) resource, The Iranian Drone Threat, chronicles the history and capabilities of the Iranian regime’s drone program, the malign use of Iranian drones in the region and the regime’s provision of drone technology to its proxies. Iran’s use of drones in various combat operations in recent years has demonstrated a rapid advancement in capabilities that pose a tactical threat to the U.S. and its Middle Eastern allies. Iran has used drones to harass U.S. air carriers and threaten freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, to gain a military advantage in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts, and to breach Israeli and Saudi airspace. 

To read UANI’s resource, The Iranian Drone Threat, click here. 

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