According to Iranian sources, its range is 2000 km. Also, the wingspan of this drone is 2.5 meters. The design of this drone was done by Shahid Aviation Industries, but the company that manufactures it is Hesa. The price of this drone has been estimated at 20,000 to 50,000 euros for each plane, according to various estimates. Kontron, later renamed Denel Dynamics, developed the ARD-10 unmanned aerial vehicle for the South African Defense Force in the 1980s, but it did not enter service when the South African border wars ended. Kontron sold the designs to Israel Aerospace Industries, which used them to develop the Harpy drone, which was first tested in 1989. These designs were sold to the Homeland Aviation Industries Organization in 2004/5 and were used by Shahid Aviation Industries to develop Shahid 131 and Shahid 136.
Confusion with Witness 131 The Shahid 136 is visually very similar to the smaller Shahid 131 and is mainly identifiable by its wingtip stabilizers, which extend up and down, unlike the Shahid 131, which only extends upwards. It uses the Inertial Navigation System (INS) and electronic countermeasures tracker, which may also be present in the Shahid 136. Turkish adaptation Turkey’s “Rabbit Technology” company unveiled a suicide drone named “Azab” in April 1402, which, according to some experts, is an adaptation of the Shahid 136 drone. However, a source in the Rabbit Technology company claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera that the structure of this drone is different from Persian suicide drones. Operational history Yemeni civil war Further information: Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) Homeland has also provided the Yemeni Houthis with Shahid 136 drones, and the Houthis deployed a number of these drones in areas under their control in December 2019.
