Iran’s Revolutionary Guard officers traveled to Russian-occupied areas in southern Ukraine to teach Vladimir Putin’s troops how to use their kamikaze drones. The information is from the National Center of Resistance, created by the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the start of the war, and was reproduced by The Washington Post on Thursday (13).
Kiev says the military was taken to a port in the Kherson region – one of the regions annexed by Moscow through referendums deemed illegal by the West earlier this month – and a location on the Crimean peninsula to give instructions on the use of Shahed drones. -136. They also reportedly monitored the use of these drones in recent attacks on civilian areas such as Mikolaiv in the south and Odessa in Crimea.
Iran’s foreign minister recently denied that the country is sending weapons to the Russian army to use in Ukraine, although information gathered by US and other spy agencies indicates otherwise.
The Shahed-136 is relatively cheap and unsophisticated, costing around $20,000. Its effects are similar to those of multi-million dollar cruise missiles such as the Kalibr (US$6.5 million) and the Kh-101 (US$13 million), although with greater risk to civilians due to their low accuracy. .
The Iranian model is also easier to find in the market than its competitors. Satellite-guided versions, which follow the terrain at low altitude, rely on more advanced chips in their systems — production of which has been hampered by the current embargo against Russian industry as a whole.
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, told the Washington Post that it makes sense for the Revolutionary Guard – the Islamic regime’s ideological army – to be involved, given that they are the main operators in the Iranian drone inventory.
Ukraine and Western countries allege that Russia has been using drones in the war since August. They are said to have taken place during the massive attacks on civilians across the country carried out earlier this week, the largest since the conflict began.
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