Iran increased production rate of attack drones tenfold since June war: Army
The deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says Iran increased the production rate of attack drones tenfold during a seven-month period after the US-Israeli war in June last year.
Speaking in a television interview published on Thursday, Brigadier General Alireza Sheikh said Iran has succeeded in making a significant increase in its drone capabilities.
He added that the Iranian Armed Forces are prepared for any possible scenario in the future by learning from the past events.
The Armed Forces’ capabilities to confront and respond to threats and to prevent the enemy from achieving its goals are a direct result of the lessons learned from the 12-day war backed in June 2025, he emphasized.
The senior Army commander pointed to Iran’s “very extensive” strategic achievements and said, “Today, we can say that the Islamic Republic of Iran has created a new literature in the field of defense and security.”
Sheikh reiterated that Iran’s great achievements in the field of drones disrupted the enemy’s defense equations in a way that “our pinpoint missiles accurately hit their targets.”
“This means military creativity which is the art of combining multiple and different components to create an effective and powerful entirety,” he explained.
Pointing to the latest round of talks between Iran and the United States in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad last week, he said according to the law of power, the two sides come to the negotiating table when they are on a par.
“The fact that we have brought the enemy to the negotiating table to talk about our requests and demands is by itself a great victory,” Sheikh added.
Iran’s Army says it targeted the US radar stations and a site for the deployment of American military forces in the UAE.
He emphasized that the enemy will realize the balance of power when it compares what it claimed at the beginning of the war in late February with the topics discussed at the negotiating table.
The US and the Israeli regime launched a large-scale unprovoked military aggression against Iran following the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior military commanders and civilians on February 28. The aggression also included strikes on nuclear facilities, schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
Iran’s Armed Forces responded with 100 waves of retaliatory strikes under Operation True Promise 4, launching hundreds of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as drones, against American military bases across West Asia and Israeli positions throughout the occupied territories.
