The U.S. has disclosed further evidence that Iran is arming Russia with armed drones for the war against Ukraine. While Iran maintains this is not the case, it sees the European war as a ripe opportun...
Tag: Iranian drones
Iranian Drones Are Being Modified To Russian Specifications
As Russia and Iran push ahead with plans to build a new factory for manufacturing thousands of loitering munitions (single-use, self-detonating drones) for the Ukraine war, remnants of one of these dr...
Covert Israeli Operations Against Iranian Missiles And Drone Plants Might Help Ukraine
Israel is the prime suspect behind the suspected drone attack on Saturday against a military target near the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The attack occurred a little over a day after an Israeli o...
Iran Might Be Waiting Until October To Supply Russia Deadlier Drones And Missiles For Ukraine
Since September, Russia has launched hundreds of Iranian-supplied loitering munitions (self-detonating drones) against Ukraine’s power grid. Tehran has much faster and deadlier drones and short-...
Why Armenia And Serbia Might Seek Iranian Drones
It has been an excellent year for Iranian drone exports. Tehran infamously supplied Russia with hundreds of its Shahed-136 loitering munitions (self-detonating or “suicide” drones) for use in the Ukra...
Iran May Hope To Replicate Turkey’s Success Exporting Drones. Here’s Why It Can’t.
Recent comments from top Iranian officials strongly suggest that Tehran perceives itself as a rapidly ascending arms exporter, especially of drones. In reality, Iran, at least under the incumbent regi...
Russia Strikes Kyiv Using Iranian Kamikaze Drones—Amid Reports About Moscow’s Dwindling Missile Stocks
Topline Kyiv on Monday was hit by a series of Russian drone strikes in the second major attack on the Ukrainian capital in the past week, as Moscow steps up its usage of cheaper, Iranian-made suicide ...
Why Iran Arming Russia With Drones For Ukraine War Is Utterly Cynical
Iran’s decision to supply large quantities of armed drones to Russia amidst Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine makes Iran an accomplice and enabler of wanton Russian aggression. The fact that Iran w...
Rival Middle East Powers Are Now Arming Both Sides Of A European War
On Sept. 13, Ukraine’s defense ministry tweeted photos of the remains of an Iranian-built Shahed-136 drone its forces had shot down over the country’s eastern Kharkiv province. The incident occurred j...
Russia’s Arms Acquisitions Mirror That Of Pariah 1980s Iran
Shortly after Russia received its first batch of the “hundreds” of armed drones the White House said it is importing from Iran in August, declassified U.S. intelligence revealed that Mosco...
Speculation Iran Will Swap Drones For Russian Su-35 Fighters
The latest speculation about the future of Russia-Iran defense relations is that Tehran might procure Russian Su-35 Flanker fighter jets in return for supplying Moscow with various types of its indige...
Here’s How Russia Might Use Iranian Drones In Ukraine
With speculation rife that Russia will soon acquire “hundreds” of armed and unarmed drones from Iran, the inevitable question of how Moscow plans to use them in its grinding war in Ukraine arises. Whe...
Is Iran Seeking To Become A Bona Fide Arms Exporter With Russia Drone Sale?
As the Oct. 18, 2020, expiration date of the UN arms embargo against Iran loomed, there was substantial speculation that Tehran would seek to modernize its aged military arsenal by importing Russian h...
Iranian, Turkish, And Israeli Drones Will Be Built In Other Countries
Iran’s inauguration of a factory to build military drones in Tajikistan on May 17 is the latest example of the Middle East’s leading drone manufacturers expanding the production and proliferation of t...