00:04When you're in the air, you are on the front line, even if you're flying above your homeland.
00:11You know, you have all kinds of dangers.
00:15But before the war I was aerobatic pilot.
00:29Now we are trying to use our skills to do the air defense.
00:49This plane was used for skydiving purposes before the war.
00:55Now it's equipped to neutralize Shahid drones and other kind of unmanned targets.
01:08Drones were invented to film things or to deliver things to remote places.
01:17But then as any other aviation dream, it was cursed and now they're hitting civilian buildings, power plants.
01:26When Iran is taking these to weapon sales, they're usually white.
01:30The Russians paint it black and they're designed to disappear into the sky to be somewhat stealthy.
01:40It's a historical moment. We still have some honeymoon, but we've already seen air-to-air missiles on Shahid drones.
01:47Man-pads.
01:49Which is pretty dangerous. There was no successful launch yet.
01:54But if you don't have enough power or enough maneuverability or enough anticipation of what's happening, then you're in a
02:02bad situation.
02:05We go into the area of the drones and then we identify it with thermal camera.
02:10Come closer, engage.
02:14So it's turning from hunting into dogfighting with drones.
02:21But this analog World War II kind of way.
02:33Most of us, we don't have to serve actually, due to the amount of kids or other reasons.
02:41Part of the team are retired people, like our commander, he's 65 turning 66 now.
02:47But it's our will to be useful in this war.
02:51Part of the team.
03:15There's so much happening during the night, in the air.
03:21There's some experimental things, like drone interceptors.
03:25There's air defense.
03:28A lot of participants.
03:35The main purpose of doing this job is to save as much lives as possible.
03:41It's kind of anti-violence thing.
03:46It's a man against the machines.
03:51Who is who is an idiot now?
03:51Sometimes, we will be assigned to the sub-provenants.
03:52And then in the air that it's Oh-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
03:56-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o.
04:12When I fly close to the target, I can't engage because there's houses or infrastructure underneath.
04:19so we keep flying keeping it in the searchlight in the spotlight and we're
04:25not even because it's like 200 kilos target and we're six stones and it's
04:30lecture hit in the black night but from my robotics I brought formation flying
04:36you have to be professional you have to be confident practice a lot anticipate
04:41a lot and trust completely each other there's no other way so these skills
04:50helps it enormously and with this aircraft we can stay in the air
04:554.5 hours it's my devotion not just to to my country but to aviation
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