DUBAAR – A Ministry of Defense (MSB) official issued a statement regarding the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahiyan. In response to a question about Iran’s latest statement reported by ANKA, claiming that the helicopter wreckage was found by the Akıncı Assault Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TİHA), the source replied:
“Turkey came to Iran’s aid on a bad day and fulfilled the conditions for good neighborliness and friendship. The minister explained what happened that day hour by hour. Everyone watched the search operation live on social media. Here are three points that are important to us. ” “I am proud of the coordinated and rapid response of our state agencies in an emergency, the progress made by our defense industry, especially in UAV technology, and the skills and capabilities acquired in this way. The Turkish Armed Forces and its trained personnel can take advantage of these capabilities and technologies acquired thanks to our domestic and defense industry.”
Iran’s statement: “He was unable to carry out accurate detection”
The claim that the helicopter wreckage was discovered by Akunci Iha was first reported in Anadolu News Agency news. The news said that after Iranian authorities accepted the offer of assistance on May 19, Bayraktar AKINCI attack unmanned aerial vehicle (TIHA) took off from Batman at 23:30 and arrived at the crash site at 00:45. stated. AA announced that the aircraft arrived in Van on Monday morning, with the title “Akhundu UAV found the area of wreckage of the helicopter carrying the President of Iran and returned home.”
In response to the news in question, Iranian Red Crescent President Pir Hussein Kolibend, in a statement on the matter yesterday, said that the wreckage of the helicopter that had been involved in the accident had been found after the deaths of Ms. Raisi and Mr. Abdullahiyan. “We did not seek foreign aid” to achieve this, he said. . Foreign Minister Kolybend said the operation was carried out by Iranian rescue teams and an Iranian drone. “It was Iranian rescue teams that discovered the wreckage of the helicopter at around 5 a.m. today,” he said.
Defense Minister Yasar Güler also issued a statement on the matter. Mr. Güler said:
“Following reports of the incident, we received a request from the Iranian authorities for a helicopter with night vision capabilities and began preparations.We assessed that it would be more useful under the current situation and prepared the AKINCI UAV. With the approval of the President and the “consent” of the Iranian authorities, the unarmed AKINCI UAV was launched at 23:30 and entered Iranian airspace at 00:12 during a scan carried out in the relevant area. Ta. Contact was made at 02:36 and the detected heat source was shared with Iranian authorities. At 05:50, after contacting Iranian authorities, they were informed that they had arrived at the wreckage. “Our AKINCI UAV successfully completed the mission. Turkish airspace at 06:45.”
Following Güler’s statement, Iran’s General Staff reported that the Akhunci drone “could not pinpoint” the location of the wreckage, and said the helicopter had been spotted by an Iranian drone. The statement pointed to the bad weather and said: “Turkey sent an unmanned aircraft equipped with night vision and thermal cameras, which lacked under-cloud detection equipment and control points, making it difficult to pinpoint the location of the accident. I couldn’t identify it.” ”
(Foreign News Service)
