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as if the glowniggers didn't supply Ukraine with some Shahed clones so they could run a false flag.
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>>23571880 NATO Secretary General statement on violation of Polish 🇵🇱 airspace by Russian drones
>>23571398 Fighter jets are scrambled as Russian suicide drones reportedly enter Polish airspace
U.S. To Acquire Iran’s Shahed-136 Drone Clones; Aims To Test Counter-UAS Against Kamikaze Threats
By
Sumit Ahlawat -
August 21, 2025
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The Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones have been an important factor in the Ukraine War. Impressed with the performance of these propeller-driven, one-way, explosive-laden kamikaze drones, Russia quickly began producing these drones locally under license from Tehran.
In 2023, Iran permitted Russia to produce these drones as part of a US$1.75 billion deal. Russia introduced substantial modifications in these drones, changing the engines, warheads, and even the color of these drones. In its new Russian iteration, these drones are called Geran-2.
Russia is currently producing these drones at the Alabuga drone factory, reportedly the world’s largest drone factory, as well as at an undisclosed facility in Izhevsk.
The Shahed-136 drones have now even caught the attention of the US.
The US Air Force (USAF) has asked the industry to produce identical copies of the Shahed-136 drone to develop and test defenses against the Iranian-designed system.
According to a Request for Information (RFI) posted last week, the USAF wants to buy 16 of these Shahed-136 lookalikes, with the option to buy 20 more at a later stage, to test the ‘next-generation’ of its counter-drone systems against these threats.
“The United States Government (USG) intends to purchase approximately 16 counter Unmanned Aerial System (cUAS) drones to support the next generation of cUAS weapons program development and integration. To support weapons development and integration of these weapon systems, the USG requires that the Class 3 Unmanned Aerial Target System be a 1:1 copy (form, fit, and function) of a reverse-engineered Shahed-136 suicide drone,” the solicitation said.
The RFI mentions that adversarial countries are currently using the Shahed-136 drones.
“This acquisition aims to leverage drones representative of the Shahed-136, which is currently used by adversarial countries and is being encountered in multiple areas of
operation,” it added.
The Russian Geran-2 (Shahid) drones form the bulk of the Russian drone assaults on Ukraine.
Russia launched a record-breaking 6,129 attacks against Ukraine using Shahed drones this July, up from 5,337 attacks in June. On July 9 alone, Russia targeted Ukraine with 728 drones.
In the coming months, Moscow aims to strike Ukraine with a single salvo of 2,000 Shahed drones in a single night.
These large-scale attacks have become possible because Russia has dramatically ramped up the production of these one-way attack drones.
Earlier this month, Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), said that Russia plans to produce 79,000 Shahed-type drones in 2025.
The Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, approximately 1,100 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian border, hosts a major Shahed assembly plant. Last month, Moscow released a grisly video of the drone factory, showing rows and rows of matt-black “Geran-2” drones, the Russian-built version of the Iranian-designed Shahed 136.
The USAF RFI says that the Iranian Shahed-136 drones are “utilized by the Russians in Ukraine,” are “difficult to detect, fly low, and descend to one hundred meters before hitting the target.”