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Iranian General Ghassem Soleimani was literally shredded in the US missile attack.
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His convoy went up in flames.
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US President Donald Trump is said to have given the order for the attack.
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Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge for the fatal US missile attack on Iran’s general Ghassem Soleimani.
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The MQ-9 Reaper is considered a dangerous killer drone. Fast, quiet and absolutely deadly. It is no coincidence that the unmanned combat machine is nicknamed “Grim Reaper”. The Iranian general Ghassem Soleimani experienced this first hand.
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A rocket hits the 62-year-old’s convoy at Baghdad airport on Thursday evening. Eight people die in the air strike – including Soleimani. His body is literally shredded.
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President Donald Trump gave the order for the attack. And the US military left nothing to chance. Therefore the MQ-9 Reaper was used. The killer drone was developed by the US company General Atomics in 2000 – at the request of the US Department of Defense – specifically for the fight against terror. The previous model, the MQ-1 Predator, served as a template. This is where the developers start. The requirements: bigger, faster, more dangerous!
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video-wrapper video-wrapper--inline">video-placeholder">Death from the air becomes even more deadly
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The result is a lightning-fast fighting machine. Top speed: 482 km / h. Flight duration: 27 hours. Maximum flight altitude: 15 kilometers. The turboprop engine (900 hp) can easily carry a huge arsenal of weapons. Specifically: up to 1361 kg. These include air-to-surface missiles, short-range missiles, laser-guided and precision-guided bombs. The latter is said to have been used in the attack on the convoy of Soleimani.
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It’s not just the United States that own the deadly killer drone. Great Britain, Italy and Spain are already using the “Grim Reaper”. A caliber like Soleimani has not yet been the target. How Iran will react to this attack is difficult to estimate. Middle East expert Erich Gysling fears the worst. “An escalation is inevitable »he said in an interview with BLICK. (JMH)
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