The "Yasir" is an Iranian unarmed, reverse-engineered lightweight, economically-midned, long-ranged Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based on the American Boeing "ScanEagle" series (detailed elsewhere on this site). The Iranian product is built by Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) and was developed from a captured ScanEagle specimen reportedly having strayed into Iranian airspace in December 2012. Once its usefulness was expended by the Iranians, the sole captured example was gifted to a Russian Air Force commander during a visit to Iran. The Yasir is believed to be in active service with Iranian and Hezbollah forces as well as flying over Syria in the ongoing Syrian Civil War (2011-Present).
The original ScanEagle, by Boeing subsidiary Insitu, first flew in June of 2002 and was introduced to American forces in 2005 (first with the United States Navy, since then all services operate it). It currently (2017) counts a plethora of global operators from Afghanistan and Australia to the United Kingdom (as the ScanEagle RM.1) and Yemen. Various navies of the world operate the type from warships, the UAV being capable of launching (via catapult) and recovered at-sea by (a relatively simple recovery system). Special forces groups also favor the series.
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(OPERATORS list includes past, present, and future operators when applicable)
✓Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance (ISR), Scout
Surveil ground targets / target areas to assess environmental threat levels, enemy strength, or enemy movement.
✓Special Forces
Serving Special Forces / Special Operations elements and missions.
✓Unmanned Capability
Aircraft inherently designed (or later developed) with an unmanned capability to cover a variety of over-battlefield roles.
Length
5.6 ft (1.70 m)
Width/Span
10.2 ft (3.11 m)
Empty Wgt
35 lb (16 kg)
MTOW
55 lb (25 kg)
Wgt Diff
+20 lb (+9 kg)
(Showcased structural values pertain to the IAIO Yasir (Yasseer) production variant)
monoplane / shoulder-mounted / swept-back
Monoplane
Design utilizes a single primary wing mainplane; this represent the most popular mainplane arrangement.
Shoulder-Mounted
Mainplanes are mounted at the upper section of the fuselage, generally at the imaginary line intersecting the pilot's shoulders.
Swept-Back
The planform features wing sweep back along the leading edges of the mainplane, promoting higher operating speeds.
(Structural descriptors pertain to the IAIO Yasir (Yasseer) production variant)
Installed:
1 x Conventional 2-stroke piston engine developing 1.5 horsepower and driving a two-bladed propeller in pusher configuration.
(Showcased performance specifications pertain to the IAIO Yasir (Yasseer) production variant. Performance specifications showcased above are subject to environmental factors as well as aircraft configuration. Estimates are made when Real Data not available. Compare this aircraft entry against any other in our database or View aircraft by powerplant type)
None. Mission equipment to include camera equipment.
Supported Types
(Not all ordnance types may be represented in the showcase above)
"Yasir" - Base Series Name.
"Yasseer" - Alternative Name.
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Hezbollah; Iran
