{"id":220340,"date":"2025-08-18T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-firm-builds-irans-shahed-like-drone-with-100-pound-payload-power"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:12:50","slug":"us-firm-builds-irans-shahed-like-drone-with-100-pound-payload-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-firm-builds-irans-shahed-like-drone-with-100-pound-payload-power","title":{"rendered":"US firm builds Iran\u2019s Shahed-like drone with 100-pound payload power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-firm-builds-irans-shahed-like-drone-with-100-pound-payload-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US firm unveils Iran\u2019s Shahed-style kamikaze drone with 100-pound payload power.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alabama-based drone manufacturer Griffon Aerospace has unveiled its latest unmanned aircraft system, the MQM-172 Arrowhead, a drone designed to operate as both a high-performance target platform and a configurable strike asset.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Beck, Airworthiness Manager and Program Manager at Griffon Aerospace, said in a social media statement that the Arrowhead is developed to provide customers with a flexible, dual-role system that can adapt to changing mission demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US firm unveils Iran\u2019s Shahed-style kamikaze drone with 100-pound payload power. Alabama-based drone manufacturer Griffon Aerospace has unveiled its latest unmanned aircraft system, the MQM-172 Arrowhead, a drone designed to operate as both a high-performance target platform and a configurable strike asset. Daniel Beck, Airworthiness Manager and Program Manager at Griffon Aerospace, said in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}