{"id":22386,"date":"2019-10-08T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/08\/beetle-like-iranian-robots-roll-under-tanks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:01:12","slug":"beetle-like-iranian-robots-roll-under-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2019\/10\/08\/beetle-like-iranian-robots-roll-under-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetle-like Iranian robots can roll under tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On screen, the small robot slides perfectly underneath the textureless tank. It is a modern iteration of an old promise in remote warfare, rendered with all the processing power of a desktop PC from 1994. Can a small, cheap robot prove useful against the vehicles of an enemy at war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent exhibition of unmanned ground vehicles by Iran suggests that the possibility, if not the reality, is already in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed by the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the Iranian Army, the Heidair-1 is almost certainly bound for life as an expendable battlefield platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are many countries and forces using small [unmanned ground vehicles] for ISR and other roles \u2014 many belligerents in the Middle East have them, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/weapons\/a22515\/iraqs-homebrewed-combat-robot\/\" target=_blank>several DIY models<\/a> made by non-state actors,\u201d said Samuel Bendett, an adviser at the Center for Naval Analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces, or NEZAJA, shared pictures of the new machine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iran_Military\/status\/1179955569542811649\" target=_blank>on Twitter<\/a> Oct. 3. The default body of the robot is a six-wheeled tan box, with a pair of antenna sticking out toward the rear of the machine. Of the six Heidair-1 platforms featured, two were models with assault rifles mounted on top of the little rovers, magazines pointed skyward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNEZAJA had an expo in Tehran where it unveiled several concepts, including this small UGV, Heidar-1. It appears to be a proof of concept, and there is no evidence of this UGV taking part in combat,\u201d Bendett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iran_Military\/status\/1180141680370049025\" target=_blank>same video<\/a>, NEZAJA shows one of the robots driving toward a rough tank-like shape. It explodes, fulfilling the promise of the simulation, and hearkening back to an earlier era of anti-tank warfare. In World War II, Germany fielded thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tankmuseum.org\/museum-online\/vehicles\/object-e1951-42\" target=_blank>Goliath remote-control anti-tank mines<\/a>, designed to crawl under parked tanks and detonate through the softer armor below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the first time we have seen Iran unveil such a vehicle,\u201d said Bendett, a fellow in Russia studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. \u201cEqually interesting is their claim that this will be a \u2018networked\u2019 system of vehicles that can presumably function in more or less autonomous mode. At this point, however, they are remote-controlled devices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video demonstration, the rovers are either single-use mines or armed with machine guns. They are shown being used as combined arms with flying multirotor scouts. 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