Experts dissect special parts on Russian UAVs used to attack Ukraine

Experts say that Russia modified the suicide drone suspected to be Shahed bought from Iran before deploying this weapon to attack targets in Ukraine.

Newsweek reported that the conflict research organization CAR (UK) on February 9 published a report after its team of experts analyzed the warhead of a suicide drone that Russia used to attack Ukraine.

Earlier, Kiev and the West accused Russia of buying Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 from Iran, bringing them back to repaint Geran-2 to attack Ukraine's energy, military and communications targets since the beginning. October 2022.

Massive Russian airstrikes have caused great damage to the opponent's infrastructure in recent years. On the other hand, Russia has repeatedly asserted that it only uses domestic weapons in its special military operation in Ukraine.

However, CAR said that Russia seems to not only repaint the Shahed UAV, but also modify this weapon to ensure it causes maximum damage to the targets it is aimed at.

"In January, a CAR field investigation team recorded information about the warheads of the Shahed-131 UAV. This is the first time that analysis of these warheads has been made public. found that this versatile warhead was designed to ensure maximum damage to Ukraine's critical infrastructure, while significantly affecting the rate at which damaged targets were repaired," the report said. said.

CAR began dissecting a Russian suicide drone last month, after an unexploded warhead was found in Odessa in October 2022. The report states that the drones appear to have been modified to carry multi-purpose warheads and "may have been designed to strike large targets such as energy infrastructure".

CAR said that when analyzing the warheads, they found that the overall weapon was well-finished, but there were some details that seemed to be added later. According to CAR, the warheads they studied have been modified to attack many different types of targets.

Responding to Newsweek, Damien Spleeter, deputy director of CAR re-emphasized, their research indicates that Russia seems to have upgraded the warhead of the UAV to cause the most damage possible to Ukraine and make it difficult for Kiev to repair. than.

Russia has not commented on the CAR report.

Late last year, Russia said that its military's large-scale missile strikes were aimed at weakening Ukraine's ability to send troops, weapons and military equipment to the front lines.

According to observers, Moscow's goal is to disrupt Ukraine's logistics network and force Ukraine to share some resources to protect infrastructure behind the front lines, thereby slowing down Kiev's counterattack.

Kiev believes that, after consecutive large-scale raids, Russia's arsenal of missiles and UAVs is exhausted. However, Moscow has rejected this assessment of Kiev as well as of the West, claiming that Russia has not used up all its weapons for the military campaign in Ukraine.

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