Qods Aeronautics Industries
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Qods Aviation Industry (also spelled Ghods or Ghoods) is an Iranian aviation manufacturing company established in 1985. Qods Aeronautics Industries Produces unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), parachutes, paragliders, paramotors, etc. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has boasted of using these products as part of its asymmetric warfare doctrine.
The main goal for Ghods organization was to design, manufacture, and upgrade variety of pilotless planes. Iran Aviation Industries Organization of the Armed Forces (IAIO), also known as the Iranian Armed Forces Aviation Industries Organization (IAFAIO), and Ghods/Ghoods Research Center were both formed in the early 1980s. IAIO progressed from repair and maintenance facilities to larger defence enterprises with several thousands employees, while Ghods remained relatively small.
Qods is the Islamic name for Jerusalem. In Arabic it means the Holy Place or Holy City. Qods Aeronautics Industries is an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) entity. The Qods (Jerusalem) Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is responsible for extraterritorial operations. In March 1998 it was reportedly joined under the Aviation Industries Organization (Aeronautics Industries Organization) on the order of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).
In 2007 it was listed by the British governmentas an entity of potential concern for WMD-related procurement. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1747 of March 24, 2007, lists entities of proliferation concern; with some exceptions, the U.N. designation requires states to freeze the financial assets on their territories which are owned or controlled by the entity, by its agents, or by entities it controls; the U.N. designation also requires states to ensure that funds, financial assets or economic resources are prevented from being made available by their nationals or by any persons or entities within their territories, to or for the benefit of the entity.
Accomplishments:
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Manufacturing pilotless planes
- Tallash I (Endeavor)
- Tallash II / Talash 2
- Hadaf 3000 (Target 3000)
- Saeqeh / Saeghe I ("Lightning Bolt") and II
- Mohajer II
- Mohajer III (Dorna)
- Mohajer IV (Hodhod)
- Developing variety of parachutes. (Freefall Personnel Parachutes, Strato Cloud parachutes, Ofogh parachutes, and Fakhte parachutes.)
- Manufacturing powered paragliders
- Manufacturing and design of ground control station (GCS) electronic system, imagery, targeting, optical tracking and aviation
