Low hour 914

[409tonner]

[Underwood]

Looks like an early Hermes 900, I believe current fitment has been upgraded to Rotax 916IS

[onetrack]

Complete with self-destruct explosive charge, set to go off, right as a crowd of Iranian senior military personnel gather around it.  🤯

[Red]

Why are there rows of Clecos along the ventral bay edges?

and no marks on the ground?

This looks like a set up, possibly using parts from more than one Hermes drone that have probably been used in propaganda shots in the past

[onetrack]

Not a setup, and the things that look like clecos, aren't. I'm not sure what they are exactly. It IS a Hermes 900 drone, and an Israeli one. The Iranians are crowing about knocking this one out - what they fail to reveal, is that Israel smuggled dozens and dozens of their drones into Iran, on a par with the Ukrainian technique, and did quite a bit of damage to Iranian military assets with the ones that did get through the Iranian repelling efforts.

 

 

[Red]

52 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Not a setup, and the things that look like clecos, aren't. I'm not sure what they are exactly. It IS a Hermes 900 drone, and an Israeli one. The Iranians are crowing about knocking this one out - what they fail to reveal, is that Israel smuggled dozens and dozens of their drones into Iran, on a par with the Ukrainian technique, and did quite a bit of damage to Iranian military assets with the ones that did get through the Iranian repelling efforts.

 

 

Aah, thanks.

Blimey that reporter is a bit brave touching that unexploded ordnance

[BrendAn]

On 23/06/2025 at 11:42 PM, Red said:

Why are there rows of Clecos along the ventral bay edges?

and no marks on the ground?

This looks like a set up, possibly using parts from more than one Hermes drone that have probably been used in propaganda shots in the past

very observant red.    i can sort of understand the clecos if they were in a hurry , don't worry mustafa she will hold together long enough for boom boom..

no marks visible on the ground though, that was something they missed when putting the show together.

[Thruster88]

When aircraft hit the ground hard like this one has they often bounce back into the air and make a second hit some 10-20 metres away. It looks to have flipped over as well.