Iranian TV airs video of underground drone plant

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Footage aired on Iranian state television shows an underground drone production facility visited by the country's army commander-in-chief, Amir Hatami. Speaking to a state TV reporter on Thursday, Hatami said Tehran had “expanded its centres of production” and had “very good reserves”. Before the US war on Iran, Tehran had the largest stockpile of ballistic missiles in the Middle East, including cluster munitions that are difficult for air defences to intercept, according to the US government. Iran also has a thriving drone industry. Before the war, it was reportedly capable of producing around 10,000 drones a month, with the Shahed serving as its flagship explosive drone. According to The New York Times, an Iranian Shahed-136 drone costs roughly $35,000 to produce, while the high-tech military interceptors used to shoot them down have cost the US military billions of dollars this year. …

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