Gold drones. Hackers learned how and how much Russia bought 6000 "shahas" in Iran
On February 4, the Prana Network Group announced the successful breakdown of Sahara Thunder's Figure Servers by the Iranian Corps of the Watchtown of the Islamic Revolution. The company is responsible for the supply of Russia's weapons from Iran. Among other things, the files on the negotiations of the parties indicating the number and cost of shock drones. The published documents do not contain the names of UAV - instead it includes the code "Motor Lodka type Dolphin 632".
According to 2022, Russia intended to release 6,000 Iranian drones for 2. 5 years at its capacity. Iranians offered the initial value of drones 23 million rubles apiece ($ 375 thousand). One in the negotiations, the Russians managed to agree on the value of 12 million rubles ($ 193 thousand) per unit of a party of 6000 drones or 18 million rubles ($ 290 thousand) per unit in a party from 2000 pieces.
The total cost of the contract, which includes production, technologies and equipment, 6000 UAVs, software, is 108. 5 billion rubles ($ 1 billion 750 million). After the technology was transferred, Russia has planned to scale up to 10,000 thousand drones a year. According to the estimates for 2023, the cost of production of one ShahED-136 in Russia, with the conditions of minimization of Iranian supply, is 4. 4 million rubles, or $ 48. 8 thousand-but this is only a forecast.
The final cost of transfer to the customer is 14. 9 million rubles ($ 165. 5 thousand). The difference may be explained by licensing payments, production investments and other additional costs. Russia was calculated with Iran gold, at least partially. In February 2023, Alabuga Machiners handed over Sahara Thunder 2 067 795 grams of gold in ingots. Meanwhile, at the World Defense Show 2024 exhibition is represented by Shahd-236 and Shahd-238 drones as their own development.