Electronicsĭespite no markings, experts believe the munition uses a computer processor manufactured by the American company Altera, RF modules by Analog Devices and LDO chips by Microchip Technology. The rocket is jettisoned immediately after launch, whereupon the drone's conventional Iranian-made Mado MD-550 four-cylinder piston engine (possibly a reverse-engineered German Limbach L550E, also used in other Iranian drones such as the Ababil-3 ) takes over. The aircraft is launched at a slight upward angle and is assisted in initial flight by rocket launch assistance ( RATO). Deploymentīecause of the portability of the launch frame and drone assembly, the entire unit can be mounted on the back of any military or commercial truck. Army unclassified worldwide equipment guide states that the Shahed 136 design supports an aerial reconnaissance option, although no cameras were noted in the Geran-2 in Russian service. The munition is 3.5 metres (11 ft) long with a wingspan of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), flies at over 185 kilometres per hour (115 mph), and weighs about 200 kilograms (440 lb). The engine sits in the rear of the fuselage and drives a two-bladed pusher propeller. The nose section contains a warhead estimated to weigh 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lb). The aircraft has a cropped delta-wing shape, with a central fuselage blending into the wings and stabilizing rudders at the tips. The first public footage of the drone was released in December 2021. The munition is designed to attack ground targets from a distance, fired in multiples from a launch rack (in batches of five upwards) to overwhelm air defenses by consuming their resources during the attack. It is designed and manufactured by Shahed Aviation Industries. The HESA Shahed 136 ( Persian: شاهد ۱۳۶, literally " Witness-136"), or Geran-2 ( Russian: Герань-2, literally " Geranium-2") in Russian service, is an Iranian loitering munition in the form of an autonomous pusher-prop drone.
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