page_title: Yasir UAV
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Yasir UAV / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: Yasir UAV. The grey patches are shadows.
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: In 4 December 2012 Iran said it had captured an American Boeing Insitu ScanEagle that violated its airspace over the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy stated that none of its ScanEagles were missing. However, there are other ScanEagle operators in the Middle East. Later that month, on 17 December 2012, Iran amended their claim to three ScanEagles and said they would attempt to reverse engineer and mass produce the ScanEagle. Bizarrely, Iran also claimed that they had already reverse-engineered, mass produced, and entered the ScanEagle into service. The UAV was unveiled to the media in September 2013 when it entered service and received the name "Yasir."
  In October 2013, the IRGC presented Russian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev with a Yasir drone as a gift.
caption: A Yasir on launcher.
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