Thread on the military equipment confiscation aboard 🇦🇪-registered RWABEE cargo carrier heading Socotra (🇾🇪) - Jizan (🇸🇦) by Ansarollah (Houthi) forces on 02JAN2022. 3 🇯🇵 Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ79 Single Cabin + Royal Saudi Land Forces insignia.

🇨🇳 Cai Hong-4B (CH-4B, reg. AD-34) MALE UAV with visible airborne (C?-Band), datalink antenna, gimballed EO-system and 4 pylons with no mounted carriage.

https://twitter.com/kmldial70/status/1456341614696321026

The 🇨🇳 CH-4B MALE UAV is the armed variant of the CH-4 (with the -A version being solely for reconnaissance purposes) developed by CAAA, which is part of CASC.

Venezuela's first armed UAV: 🇻🇪 ANSU-100, which is an upgrade to their ARPA program (locally produced 🇮🇷 Mohajer-2) with fixed wheel chassis, making it the first country in South America to possess armed drones. The 🇮🇷 Mohajer-2 shares the same cylindrical fuselage, twin-boom tails and straight wings as it's predecessor (Mohajer-1). The use of skids instead of landing gear makes it dependent on pneumatic rail launchers. There are 2 known skid designs, of which one is for without EO optic

#Throwback to when 🇻🇪 Venezuela showcased it's first light trainer aircrafts: the Simón Bolívar 100 and 200 (SIBO 100/200), which are locally built 🇮🇷 Iranian Fajr F.3-B and Fajr F.20. #avgeeks The Fajr F.3-A/B is an all-composite 4-seater single-engine piston aircraft intended for pilot training and light transport. It is powered by a 🇺🇸 Lycoming AEIO-540-L1B5 6-cylinder piston engine (300 hp/220 kW) with a 3-blade 🇩🇪 Hoffmann propeller. The -A has a fixed landing...