For violating the promise not to send drones to Moscow, the US may impose new sanctions on Tehran.
Iran sent via the Caspian Sea to Russia batch of attack drones Shahed 129, reports “Censor.Net” with reference to sources.
“In the future, military cargo is planned to be delivered to the borders of Ukraine via Astrakhan and Volgograd,” the article says.< /p>
Not much is known about the actual combat characteristics of this UAV, since previously Iranian drones have never been tested in full-scale war conditions.
From the manufacturer's data, it is known that the Israeli drone was used as a basis for the development of the UAV Hermes 450 and the American MQ-1 Predator.
The length of the fuselage is eight meters, the wingspan is 16. The declared combat load is up to 400 kg. The flight speed is up to 150 km/h with a radius of up to 200 km. Flight range up to 1700 km. The developers claim that the drone can stay in the air for up to 24 hours.
It can be armed with anti-tank missiles Sadid-1 (a copy of the Israeli Spike-ER) or a high-precision gliding bomb with a fragmentation warhead – Sadid-345.
We will remind you that on the morning of July 22, the Israel Defense Forces launched a missile strike and destroyed an Iranian enterprise for the assembly of unmanned aerial vehiclesin the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. Warehouses with finished products were also destroyed. However, the destroyed enterprise is hardly the only production site.
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Attempts of Russian President Vladimir Putin to deepen ties with Iran< /strong> against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine pose a “serious threat”, according to Jake Sullivan, the adviser to the US president on national security.
Sullivan previously warned that Iran may start supplying Russia with combat drones for the war in Ukraine, in particular, those that can carry weapons. The Russian delegation visited the Kashan Airfield in central Iran at least twice in the past month, where they studied the Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones.
Immediately after the publication of this information, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdullahian assured the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba that Iran is against Russia's war with Ukraine and denied statement about the supply of weapons.
