"Loud and slow": Iranian drones will probably cause problems for Putin's military in winter
Created: 05/12/2022, 14:58
By: Patrick Mayer
Kamikaze drone from Iran?
This photo is supposed to show a "Shahed 136" just before the impact in Kyiv.
© Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
The Russian army apparently cannot use its Iranian drones in winter.
In Russia there are deaths at military airfields.
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Munich/Kiev - Next setback for Russia in the Ukraine war: As the online news
site euromaidanpress.com
reports, the Russian army has stopped attacking the critical infrastructure with Iranian shaded drones.
Because: According to the report, the combat drones should be useless in winter because they supposedly do not work in contact with cold water.
For example, the Iranian shaded drones were assembled from non-frost-resistant plastic parts.
Attacks in the Ukraine war: Iranian shaded drones are said to be useless in winter
This was stated according to
euromaidanpress.com
Yevgeny Silkin, spokesman for the commander of the joint Ukrainian armed forces.
Most recently, they had shown themselves to be better and better prepared when it came to averting damage from Iranian-made kamikaze drones.
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According to the
Washington Post
, specially deployed Ukrainian units detect the drones with thermal sensors and then illuminate them with lasers.
This makes it easier to fire at dusk.
The soldiers would communicate with each other via Telegram for easier consultation.
The kamikaze drones, which are usually loud and slow, would then be shot at from several positions with standard machine guns.
And that's not all of the setbacks: As the US newspaper also writes, the US has gained access to wreckage from shaded drones shot down in Ukraine.
The remains have been examined in detail in order to obtain more information about the structure and technology of the unmanned aerial vehicles.
Explosions at military airfields in Russia: there are said to have been fatalities
Both sides use drones.
Recently, Ukraine had confirmed attacks with combat drones on Russian military airfields in the annexed Crimea.
At least three people have been killed in explosions at two military airfields in Russia.
"An unidentified drone attacked an airfield in the Saratov region,"
Baza
reported .
The authors were initially unclear.
The planes at Engels-2 Airport, which were also damaged, are said to be T-95 strategic bombers.
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