r/armenia • u/Datark123 • Feb 12 '26
Falsification/propaganda / Կեղծում/քարոզչություն Armenia unveils suicide drone resembling IAI’s Harop
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-armenia-unveils-suicide-drone-resembling-iais-harop-1001534747•
u/Level-Post-3016 Feb 12 '26
Still crazy how countries underestimate. They still believe that armenia is way too poor to finance anything or make its own drones, they stuck in this Armenia 2020 position.
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u/No_Draw_8366 Feb 12 '26
We also underestimated Azerbaijan for a very long time. That's how the losing side flips the tables.
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u/Ma-urelius ԱրկէնդինաՀայ | գոգայօվ ֆէրնէդ ու խորոված վայելող Feb 12 '26
Still crazy how countries underestimate.
I think it gives us some weird advantage, only if we are doing progress on our own such us buying more weapons and developping e en further the country and stuff.
Make them think we are weak while getting stronger, type of ahit yk?
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u/surenk6 Pureblood Լոռեցի Feb 12 '26
I'm always ok with not reinventing the wheel and instead copying something that has proven to be good. We're years (if not a decade) behind Israel in drone tech. So reverse engineering and copying them is the most pragmatic approach to closing that gap.
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u/MealIntelligent443 Feb 12 '26
One of them crashed here. Its more likely that we reverse engineered it than we stole trade secrets from the Indians when theyre a lifeline for us
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u/Datark123 Feb 12 '26
Well the article doesn't claim we stole it. It claims that India willingly provided the information to us.
But the article completely ignores the fact that Armenia came into possession few of these drones during the war.
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u/arronsky Feb 12 '26
people talk about reverse engineering like you pick up a yoyo and you make another yoyo. The magic of these products is in the combination of hardware and software. Half the hardware is in the production and communication with the drone, not on-product. More than half the intellectual property is in the software to both program the drone (off drone), and to fly the drone (on-drone, but again, tightly coupled with hardware). All that to say, I think we can copy some insights and design decisions, but you either know how to make a drone or you don't (and it seems we do), and a bunch of bayraktars falling from the sky don't magically give you drone powers.
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u/Trailin_FigFruit Feb 13 '26
Why blast it out? They just need to stfu and continue to arm without the chest beating because RoA's own ass was too recently handed to them. Same thing with all the show boating of equipment and defensive positions. Just shut their mouth and train, train, train because the military will need more than talking and show boating. Ohh, and stop the theft of the defense funds and other supplies. More time behind the rifles too, real range time for the soldiers, not 5 rounds for a rickety ass old crumbling beat up AK.
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u/fizziks Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
This is about the davaro drone that we just have some prototypes of as far I as I know. Don't know if it is an actual product yet.
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u/Level-Post-3016 Feb 12 '26
They are on production already ive seen on their website a picture of their assembly production line
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u/fizziks Feb 12 '26
Link? I only see CGI and a video from a test range.
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u/Level-Post-3016 Feb 12 '26
About Usopen this page and the background should be the drones on the assembly area
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u/Datark123 Feb 12 '26
Labeling this as misinformation because the article implies that Indian helped Armenia to build these drones, but in reality Armenia most likely just reverse engineered the Israeli drones it captured during the war.