Qods Yasir

Qods Yasir
Role Unmanned aerial vehicle
National origin Iran
Designer Qods Aviation Industry Company
Introduction September 28, 2013
Status in production and in service
Primary users  Iran
 Syria
Produced 2013–onwards
Developed from Boeing Insitu ScanEagle

The Qods Yasir (Persian: یاسر), also known as the Sayed-2, is an Iranian light tactical surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufactured by Qods Aviation. It is ostensibly an unlicensed copy of an American Boeing Insitu ScanEagle drone captured and reverse-engineered by Iran, but has some design changes.

Iran captured a Scaneagle in December 2012 and the Qods Yasir was unveiled about ten months later, in September 2013. The Yasir's only state operators are Iran and Syria. It has been exported to at least one non-state actor and is alleged to have been exported to several more.

Yasir UAVs have been used by Iranian allies in the civil wars in Iraq and Syria, likely because of their small footprint compared to larger Iranian UAVs.

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