Procurement: Untraceable Gyroscopes and Toy Engines Matter
30th October 2020
Iran was recently found equipping their UAVS with aircraft engines built for hobbyist remote control aircraft. The UN has been studying the wreckage of many of these Iranian UAVs employed as weapons and an examination of the key components revealed many items that are not banned from going to Iran because these items are widely used in civilian products. Iran was still careful, because there is not a lot of demand for these small hobby engines in Iran. Any unusual quantity of these engines sold to Iran would be noted. To avoid discovery Iran had these engines, mainly models made in Germany or China, sold to a middleman in a third country and then those engines could be diverted to Iran and smuggled in. At that point Iran can smuggle the engines, and other forbidden components to pro-Iran groups that will use assemble the Iranian designed UAVs with the help of Iranian advisors for use as weapons or just reconnaissance.