Danilov noted that when they started shooting down Iranian Shaheds in Ukraine, they paid attention to the equipment. According to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, among the parts of the UAV were the products of companies “that should not have supplied these components to Iran.”
“How did they get there at that time? I think a lot of intelligence agencies are working on this problem now, figuring out how it happened. But after it becomes publicly known, I don’t think the companies that did that will continue for do it. What they will assemble their drones from is a big question. Will there be a replacement for the originally designed things in this product? This is such a … problem. We understand what is happening there. We know the place, one of them is called Togliatti, where will they do it. There are other cities. Our intelligence simply works flawlessly in many issues, and we understand in advance what steps they can come up with,” Danilov said.
Russia uses at least three types of Iranian UAVs in Ukraine: kamikaze drones Shahed-136Shahed-131 and multipurpose UAV Mohajer-6. The Russians repainted Shahed-136 in their colors and called “Geranium-2”Shahed-131 received the name “Geran-1” in the Russian army.
According to the spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat, from September 11 to December 28, about 430 occupying kamikaze drones (and about 420 missiles).
