The HESA Shahed 136 (Persian: شاهد ۱۳۶, lit. ‘Witness 136’), also known by its Russian designation Geran-2 (Russian: Герань-2, lit. ‘Geranium-2’), is an Iranian-designed one-way attack drone, also referred to as a kamikaze drone or suicide drone, in the form of an autonomous pusher-propelled drone. It is designed and manufactured by the Iranian state-owned corporation HESA in association with Shahed Aviation Industries.
The munition is designed to attack ground targets from a distance. The drone is typically fired in multiples from a launch rack. The first public footage of the drone was released in December 2021. Russia has made much use of the Shahed 136/Geran-2 in the Russo-Ukrainian war, especially in strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, and mass-produces its own version.
Description
The aircraft has a cropped delta-wing shape, with a central fuselage blending into the wings, which have vertical stabilizing rudders at the tips. The nose section contains a warhead estimated to weigh 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lb). An Iranian-made Mado MD-550 engine sits in the rear of the fuselage and drives a two-bladed pusher propeller. The MD-550 is reverse engineered from the Limbach L550E, a 550cc four-cylinder two-stroke petrol aircraft engine made in Germany. The munition is 3.5 metres (11 ft) long, with a wingspan of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), flies at over 185 kilometres per hour (115 mph), and weighs about 200 kilograms (440 lb).[16] The drone’s appearance resembles that of the Drohne-Anti-Radar (DAR) developed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in Germany in the 1980s, but whether there was actual copying is an open question.
Its range has been estimated to be anywhere from between 970–1,500 km (600–930 mi) to as much as 2,000–2,500 km (1,200–1,600 mi). The U.S. Army unclassified worldwide equipment guide states that the Shahed 136 design supports an aerial reconnaissance option, although no cameras were noted in the Geran-2 in Russian service.
Electronics
The Shahed 136 navigates by a commercial-grade inertial guidance system, corrected by civilian GPS and GLONASS. December 2023 remains from the drones were found with SIMs and 4G modems of the type used in mobile phones.
Deployment
Because of the portability of the launch frame and drone assembly, the entire unit can be mounted on the back of any military or commercial truck. The aircraft is launched on rails at a slight upward angle with initial rocket launch assistance. The rocket is jettisoned immediately after launch, whereupon the drone’s conventional piston engine takes over
Loitering munition
A loitering munition (LM) is a type of self-destructive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a warhead that is typically designed to remotely loiter by a human operator using electro-optical targeting sensors or camera suite and data-link until a target is designated, then crash into it and detonate. Anti-radiation (anti-radar) loitering munitions are a type of loitering munition that employ either an anti-radiation seeker by itself or in tandem with an electro-optical targeting system to locate enemy radar by loitering and destroy it after detection. Common terms like suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone are used for both loitering munition and one-way attack drones. They enable attacks against hidden targets that emerge for short periods without placing high-value platforms near the target area. Unlike many other types of munitions, their attacks can be changed mid-mission or aborted. Loitering munitions are typically aerial platforms, but include some autonomous undersea vehicles with similar characteristics.
Loitering weapons emerged in the 1980s for the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) role, and were deployed for SEAD by some military forces in the 1990s. In the 2000s, they were developed for additional roles, from long-range strikes and fire support to short-range tactical systems that fit in a backpack.
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it’s joever for republicans this cycle, they lost the suburban grill dads. mine now watches al jazeera instead of fox and reposts “cash, hope, and jobs 🤪” tier jokes about trump on ig reels
it is march 22 and stalin saved the world from fascism
It makes absolutely no sense there isnt and had never been a Digimon MMO.
Most of rhe time I hate working in an open kitchen cause I cant swear and listen to grindcore at work or make fun of customers loudly. But little kids come up to see me make pizzas and are absolutely amazed by my tossing dough, hauling pizzas around in a 650 degree oven that I often jusr reach into instead of using the paddle and how fast I can do it and those moments feel great. I’ve even learned some fancy moves like doing a spin while the dough is in the air or if im working with rhe guy I practiced wirh we can toss them to each other (we both know how to juggle). Had a full 7 year old birthday party of like 9 kids absolutely glued to me tonight. They were super fun. They were asking lots of questions and were cheering me on. The people I was working with are a but more nervous around kids and I wanted to give em a show, so i let the others take a break and solo’d a 12 ticket rush just to flex. They got so hype seeing my A game in action. The rest of the night was super slow and I had been bored and drinking a lot of coffee prior, so I was down for showtime
I’m 30+ years old, and I am also amazed at cooks tossing pizza dough around. My fondest memory from when I lived in Venezuela, was visiting the hole in the wall Pizza place that would let me go into the kitchen and see them pull pizzas out of ovens.
Second Wizard of Earthsea book done and adding false consciousness into my idea that the naming/real names in the book can be viewed as a sort of althusserian interpellation. (So not really althusserian anymore as that guy decided to shit on the view of ideology as false consciousness as per Marx and Engels. But interpellation is still I great concept.)
The girl that is taken to be priestess forgets and is denied her real name and thus her freedom and true self. The wizard gives her back her real name and she is no longer a slave. She had been interpellated to a false identity.
Ahh shame. Tried to watch Marty supreme, but I can’t willingly view anything that has Kevin O’Leary. God I hate that shitstain so fucking much
7 yrs ago we “had GO ROBERT MUELLER and the rule of law”…
Now we have NO Robert Mueller OR rule of law…
Please God, don’t let John Cannabis die

Stood out on the balcony as the night fell tonight and watched at the beautiful crescent moon and the stars lighting up one by one. And kept thinking about the people in Iran and Palestine.
How I wish them to be free from the Great Satan and its underlings.
Gf watching “Say Nothing” - a historical drama of two Irish sisters and their life in the P.IRA:
Of course the bombings by the IRA weren’t good, but why should they get 20 years in prison when soldiers were bombing and shooting innocent people and getting no time?
It’s a v good series btw, although horrifying to see the shit we did to our sisters and brothers in the occupied 6 at the behest of a cabal of paedo-monarchists.
I got to teach her about the state’s monopoly of violence and a little bit of how the North of Ireland was integrated into the web of imperialist abuse that stretched from Korea to Palestine, and then back to Ireland.

Listening to the recent Radio War Nerd on Bahrain, amused that John’s infirmity of the week was just getting melancholy after seeing a crowd of people
bummed that nobody wants to join my punk rock band “the dead pedophiles”
I’m not any kind of historian so I never knew this before, but someone told me about Crassus’ late career decisions, and I am cracking up laughing at the cosmic joke here.
Crassus received directions from the Osroene chieftain Ariamnes, who had assisted Pompey in his eastern campaigns. Ariamnes was in the pay of the Parthians and urged Crassus to attack at once, falsely stating that the Parthians were weak and unorganized. He then led Crassus’ army into the desert, far from any water. In 53 BC, at the Battle of Carrhae (modern Harran, in Turkey), Crassus’ legions were defeated by a numerically inferior Parthian force. Crassus’ legions were primarily heavy infantry, and not prepared for an attack by swift mounted archers, a tactic that Parthian troops had mastered. The Parthian horse archers devastated the unprepared Romans with hit-and-run, feigning retreats as they shot to their rear. Crassus refused his quaestor Gaius Cassius Longinus’ plans to reconstitute the Roman battle line, and remained in the testudo formation to protect his flanks until the Parthians eventually ran out of arrows. The Parthians brought camels carrying arrows to supply their archers, letting them relentlessly barrage the Romans until dusk. Despite taking severe casualties, the Romans retreated to Carrhae, forced to leave many wounded behind to be slaughtered by the Parthians.
What was Parthia, you might ask? Luckily, wikipedia provided a handy map!

In extremely online news, It’s very fucking funny to me how people are pretending like chappel roan killed a child after some unfounded claim about her being rude spread like wild fire on social media










