On January 5, Iran held its first large-scale exercise of using domestic UAVs. Mahmoud Mousavi, deputy head of Iran's army operations department, mentioned that the exercise included using air-to-air missiles to aim and destroy targets in the air. The U.S. website thedrive said on January 6 that an Iranian drone launched a "fake rattlesnake" missile.
According to reports, Iran's UAV launched its mysterious "azarakhsh" missile. According to the image, a "Karrar" UAV taking off from a truck launched a missile that looks like a "rattlesnake". The report quoted Iran's Mehr news agency as saying that "karar" and "intercepting UAV" operated by Iran's air defense forces destroyed air targets with "azaraksh" on the second day of the exercise.
The drive website believes that the missile appears to be at least a "derivative" of the US aim-9 "rattlesnake" air-to-air missile, and mentions that thousands of such missiles were delivered to Iran during the Pahlavi Dynasty. The missile has at least the ability to engage lower or slower flying targets, including helicopters or small UAVs.
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