The forces of the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFOT), operating against the troops of the Ethiopian Federal Government, lost a T-72B tank. The combat vehicle is completely disabled.
As a result of an internal explosion of ammunition, the tower separated from the hull, several support rollers broke off from each side, the engine turned into debris.
The Iranian-made Mohajer-6 unmanned aerial vehicle is suspected of destroying the "seventy-second", which arrived in East Africa from Ukraine.
According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, the first data on possible deliveries of such UAVs to this country appeared in the middle of last month. Then it became known that the top officials of Ethiopia visited a military base at the airport of the administrative center of the Afar region of the city of Semera, where they examined new drones of unnamed models.
According to the frames from the control center, satellite images that lit up later and images released from the cameras of the devices themselves, it was possible to conclude that the Iranian reconnaissance and strike Mohajer-6 had arrived.
These drones have a maximum take-off weight of 600 kg. They can carry a payload weighing 100 kg. As a rule, these are corrected bombs, high-precision Qaem or Almas homing anti-tank guided missiles with a range of up to 8000 meters.
The flight range of the drone itself is 200 km. The maximum speed is 200 km / h. The time spent in the air is 12 hours.
This Tigray Defence Forces T-72B could well have been the first victim of an Iranian Mohajer-6 drone strike. #Ethiopia #Tigray H/T @MapEthiopia pic.twitter.com/0hqkvT8fwl
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) September 8, 2021
Alexey Brusilov
