The regime of Nicolás Maduro showed Iranian combat drones assembled in Venezuela for the first time. It was this Tuesday, during the military parade for Independence Day, in Los Próceres, Caracas.

“It stands in front of you aerospace powerled by Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda n. 8 airborne intelligence, surveillance and electronic reconnaissance group, with nationally designed and manufactured unmanned aerial systems, “exclaimed a voiceover during the official broadcast broadcast on the national network.

The picture showed the drone Antonio José de Sucre-100 (ANSU-100), originally known as the Iranian Mohajer-2, modernized and armed in Venezuela.

In transmission, its ability to “observation, reconnaissance and attack, with anti-tank and anti-personnel capabilities”.

Also exhibited was the Antonio José de Sucre-200 (ANSU-200) drone model, produced with indigenous Venezuelan design and Iranian support.

As stated in the transmission, this unmanned aircraft has “flying wing, speed, high stealth and observation skillsreconnaissance, attack, drone hunting and suppression of enemy air defense “.

The Iranian 107 Fadjr-1 rocket launchers on Tiuna vehicles and speedboats were also part of the artillery that paraded through the streets of Caracas, among 12,023 military, police and civilian officials,

Maduro spoke on video

For the second consecutive year, Maduro did not participate in the parade Independence Day, the date on which the Day of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) is also celebrated.

Last year he prematurely withdrew from the parade. On this occasion he intervened through a pre-recorded video from the Miraflores Palace, in which he asked the soldiers to always be present. “maximum alert” before alleged “threatening and terrorist” plans. of the “Santanderist” oligarchy of Colombia.

“Nobody rests on their laurelsI ask the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to always be on the lookout for the Santanderist curse, which in its last days has shown itself to be more aggressive and spiteful against the spirit of the people of Bolívar, “he warned.

“I always say to our people, to our Bolivarian national armed forces, to all of us who love this homeland, always on the highest alert against the threatening and terrorist plans of the Santanderist oligarchy”, he said in his message.

And he added: “The same rancid oligarchy that murdered Sucre, that decadent and unscrupulous oligarchy that will end up in the landfill of history”.

Furthermore, he argued that Venezuelans must demonstrate every day that they are “a warrior people who have passed all possible tests” and in each of them they have “knowing how to support that courageous national spirit, which defends the most sublime values ​​of the Bolivarian”.

“This July 5, 2022, we are here, the children of independence in a perfect civil-military union, ready two centuries later to continue to give life to an independent homeland,” he stressed.

“We live this date with the certainty of our gradual economic recovery, of our political stability cared for and defended by all, of a true cultural renaissance and of the values ​​of Venezuela”, he stressed.

“However, we cannot sing victorynever, as long as there are empires, everything we have and love is at risk, “he warned.

The president said this year he had “the joy and the honor” of promoting 15,319 officers, “men and women who have devoted their lives to the service of this great country called Venezuela”.

“It was up to you to grow in commitment, in loyalty, in the ability to work with people and history to keep writing future battles. It is up to you to be the Bolivarian officers of the 2022-2030 bicentennial era and arrive undefeated on December 17 2030 “, he concluded.

With information from Agencies