ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Al Jazeera
22August2010 12:04pmEDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has inaugurated what his government calls the country's first domestically built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft.
Speaking to a group of officials on Sunday, he described it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.
The four-metre-long unmanned aircraft, dubbed the Karrar [striker in Farsi], was inaugurated on the national day for the country's defence industry in a ceremony aired live on state TV.
No details were provided on the craft's capabilities.
"The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship," Ahmadinejad said.
The goal of the aircraft is to "keep the enemy paralysed in its bases".
