The Russian Federation is already applying its copies Shahd: what will change in the coming months - Britain's intelligence

However, Russia remains dependent on components and whole weapons from Iran, which is mainly delivered through the Caspian Sea," - said in a message created according to British intelligence. Also, according to the department, its own production is likely to allow Russia to establish more reliable supply OWA-UAV. The effectiveness of these weapons was different, but Ukraine proved effective in neutralizing most OWA-UAVs.

In early July 2023 it became known that in the city of Elabuga (Tatarstan), Iranian Dron-Kamikadze Shahd was already collecting and importing specialists there. On the basis of an existing plant in Elabuz, which already occupies 40,000 square meters. m. , plan to expand production to 100,000 square meters. m. And after two or three years there are planned to master the production of the battle part of Shahd.

The components are completely coming from this country and they do not develop anything there, and so far they only collect. But in the future, there may also be a workshop for their own development and copying, as local ads are full of vacancies for "Drone Drone specialists with knowledge". At the same time, the Financial Times investigative journalists found that the Russian SHAHED Russian Factory will be based in Tatarstan under the cover of Agricultural drones.

Investigative journalists have noted that in recent months, the activity of the Russian enterprise has increased, and the business park where it is located has started a set of UAV engineers and specialists who own Farsi and are able to translate "technical documentation". Social networks have found dozens of announcements about work in "Albatros", in particular for positions such as "UAV production director", "UAV designer" and "UAV chief technologist".

Some of them explicitly state that this position is coordinated with the Ministry of Defense of Russia on the issues of projection. We will remind, in early August, experts pointed out the differences between Russian drones "geranium" from Iranian Shahd. Western researchers compared several versions of Iranian and Russian drones and found that the Russian Federation fully localized the production of Shahd 136. And on July 4, an expert of the Institute.