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.
However, the Washington Post later claimed that the drones used in this attack were of other types. The war between Ukraine and Russia More information: 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine A part of a drone near Kupyansk, Kharkiv province of Ukraine, was shot down in September 2022, and Ukraine considers it evidence of Homeland’s 136 production. (Russian text: Geranium-2) With the presence of these drones in the war between Ukraine and Russia, they became more known. Russia has changed the name of this drone to Geranium-2. In all its official statements, Iran has denied the sale of drones to Russia, but Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced that the top military powers are using Iranian-made military equipment. In an unprecedented incident, Ukraine lost a MiG-29 in the process of shooting down a witness plane.
