page_title: Yasir UAV
section_title: Lebanon
hierarchical_section_title: Yasir UAV / Operational history / Lebanon
caption_attribution_description: English: The sensor of a Yasir UAV.
context_page_description: The Qods Yasir, also known as the Sayed-2, is an Iranian light tactical surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by Qods Aviation. It is ostensibly an unlicensed copy of an American Boeing Insitu ScanEagle drone captured and reverse-engineered by Iran, but has some design changes.
  Iran captured a Scaneagle in December 2012 and the Qods Yasir was unveiled about ten months later, in September 2013. The Yasir's only state operator is Iran. It has been exported to at least one non-state actor and is alleged to have been exported to several more.
  Yasir UAVs have been used by Iranian allies in the civil wars in Iraq and Syria, likely because of their small footprint compared to larger Iranian UAVs.
context_section_description: Following the repetitive flying in early 2014 of an unidentified UAV over Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea's Ma'arab complex, MP Antoine Zahra accused Hezbollah of flying a Yasir UAV in order to monitor and possibly assassinate Geagea. Israeli sources say Hezbollah has flown Yasir UAVs as well.
caption: Sensor
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