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Tehran: Azeri Drones on `Spy Missions' along Iran Border
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23:43 08/12/2012
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MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijan is using drones to carry
out spying missions along its border with Iran and Nagorno-Karabakh,
Azerbaijan's ethnic Armenian breakaway republic, Iran's Press TV
reported on Saturday.
Iranian military experts said Azerbaijan has been using Orbiter
ultra-light drones assembled with Israeli help, as well as Hermes-450
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) `for control and surveillance
missions.'
Israel has sold 10 Hermes-450 drones, manufactured by Elbit Systems,
to Azerbaijan between 2009 and 2012, the agency said, adding that
Israeli satellites `are closely cooperating with Azeri drones.'
The Hermes-450 UAVs can be equipped with offensive systems such as
air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles, as well as electronic warfare
equipment.
Earlier this year, an escalation of deadly skirmishes was seen between
Armenian and Azeri forces along the border between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking
international fears that renewed full-scale conflict could be
imminent.
Thousands of soldiers from each side are massed along those fragile
lines. They regularly breach the ceasefire agreement by exchanging
occasional small-arms and light-weapons fire, but have stopped short
of intensifying the fighting.
Hermes-450
23:43 08/12/2012
Related News
Azerbaijan to build 60 pilotless spy planes for its army
Azerbaijan to buy training target drones from Turkey
MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijan is using drones to carry
out spying missions along its border with Iran and Nagorno-Karabakh,
Azerbaijan's ethnic Armenian breakaway republic, Iran's Press TV
reported on Saturday.
Iranian military experts said Azerbaijan has been using Orbiter
ultra-light drones assembled with Israeli help, as well as Hermes-450
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) `for control and surveillance
missions.'
Israel has sold 10 Hermes-450 drones, manufactured by Elbit Systems,
to Azerbaijan between 2009 and 2012, the agency said, adding that
Israeli satellites `are closely cooperating with Azeri drones.'
The Hermes-450 UAVs can be equipped with offensive systems such as
air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles, as well as electronic warfare
equipment.
Earlier this year, an escalation of deadly skirmishes was seen between
Armenian and Azeri forces along the border between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking
international fears that renewed full-scale conflict could be
imminent.
Thousands of soldiers from each side are massed along those fragile
lines. They regularly breach the ceasefire agreement by exchanging
occasional small-arms and light-weapons fire, but have stopped short
of intensifying the fighting.