{"id":2011648,"date":"2023-08-25T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-use-of-iranian-drones-demonstrates-global-not-regional-concern\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T04:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:22:04","slug":"russias-use-of-iranian-drones-demonstrates-global-not-regional-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-use-of-iranian-drones-demonstrates-global-not-regional-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s deployment of Iranian drones highlights worldwide, not local, apprehension."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussias-use-of-iranian-drones-demonstrates-global-not-regional-concern%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011648&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russia&#8217;s Use of Iranian Drones\u200c in Ukraine \u2063Highlights\u2063 Global Consequences<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2063recent use of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by Russia in Ukraine has brought attention to the global impact of Tehran&#8217;s drone program. According to a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, Iran&#8217;s \u2064drone program\u200b has greatly benefited Russia, \u200bwith Tehran providing hundreds \u2062of UAVs that pose a threat due to their simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran has successfully identified and exploited a niche market\u200c for these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-use-of-iranian-drones-demonstrates-global-not-regional-concern\/\" title=\"Russia's deployment of Iranian drones highlights worldwide, not local, apprehension.\">low-cost single-purpose attack drones<\/a>,&#8221; said Lt. \u200dCol. Robert Carter, DIA spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has primarily\u200c supplied Russia with the Shahed-136, along with the slightly smaller Shahed-131.\u2062 These drones are designed to explode upon reaching their intended target\u2063 and \u2064lack communication capabilities once airborne, making them difficult\u200c to disrupt\u200c using\u2062 electronic warfare. Additionally, \u2064the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 do\u200d not require a runway for takeoff,\u2064 making them easily deployable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have watched as these systems \u200dhave migrated from the Middle\u200c East into Eastern Europe. \u2063This represents Tehran\u2019s \u200cwillingness to \u200dsell weapons,&#8221; explained Carter. \u2062&#8221;This is another example of \u2064Russia and Iran attempting to alter the traditional\u2062 world order to their benefit as we continue this phase of \u200cstrategic competition. By \u200barming Russia, \u2062Tehran has clearly signaled \u200cthey are not a neutral actor\u200c in the\u2064 Ukrainian\u2064 conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DIA has confirmed Russia&#8217;s use\u2062 of Iranian drones in Ukraine by comparing\u2063 recovered remnants from the battlefield to\u200c a drone found\u200b in Iraq\u2064 after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/car-bomb-blast-kills-four-in-baghdads-sadr-city\/\" title=\"Car Bomb Blast Kills Four in Baghdad\u2019s Sadr City\">attack claimed<\/a> by Iran. The similarities in \u200bdesign and components indicate the involvement of\u2063 Iranian drones in the\u200b conflict.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2062 the \u2062simplistic drones provided\u2064 by Iran to Russia are \u2063just a part\u2063 of their\u2064 arsenal, more advanced systems remain \u200cprimarily in \u2063the Middle East. Iran recently unveiled the Mohajer-10, an upgraded version of the Mohajer-6 drone with increased payload\u2064 capacity and operational range.<\/p>\n<p>However, skepticism surrounds Iran&#8217;s claims of \u2064new advancements in their drone program. Tal Beeri, research director at the Alma Center, notes\u200b that Iran\u200d often\u200b assigns multiple names to \u2063existing weapons, potentially inflating their capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has \u2063also \u2062supplied various drones to\u200b its proxies in the region, \u200cincluding Hezbollah, Hamas, Shi\u2019ite militias\u2062 in \u200bSyria \u2064and Iraq, Houthis\u200d in Yemen, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Iranian proxies use\u200d UAVs. For example, Hezbollah has between\u2063 2,000 \u200cand 4,000 UAVs\u200b of all types. Both Iranians and self-made. The working \u200cassumption is that the\u200b Iranians \u2064have handed over advanced UAVs to Hezbollah,&#8221; said Beeri.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the use\u2063 of Iranian drones by\u2064 Russia in\u200c Ukraine highlights \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-s-robbins-china-may-be-eyeing-taiwan-after-putins-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"James S. Robbins: China May Be Eyeing Taiwan After Putin\u2019s Invasion Of Ukraine\">global consequences<\/a> of Tehran&#8217;s drone program and \u200cits impact\u2062 on \u200cregional conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s deployment of Iranian drones in Ukraine highlights the global impact of Tehran&#8217;s drone program. Over the past year, Russia has greatly profited from Iran&#8217;s provision of numerous UAVs, which pose a significant threat due to their simplicity. This collaboration underscores the expanding consequences of Iran&#8217;s drone capabilities beyond regional boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}