The advisor to the commander of the Aerospace Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Ali Belali, revealed that Iran is using seized American weapons to develop its own systems instead of merely relying on reverse engineering.
Belali stated in a statement seen by the News Video Agency that "the American weapons and equipment we acquired during the imposed wars, the second and third, are subjected to reverse engineering and design."
He added that Iran "does not limit itself to reproducing weapon models, but proposes new ideas to obtain its own weapons that differ from the original models and are more suitable for its needs."
In recent months, Iran announced that it had seized several advanced American drones that it shot down, as well as unmanned submarines that its armed forces captured in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
In previous years, Tehran produced similar models of several American drones, such as the RQ-70, RQ-11, and Scan Eagle, after capturing them.