As of January 3, 90 Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 remained in Russia, which was reduced to 24 after the last major attack.
Russia spent a large number of Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones during a major attack on January 26. Analysts at the American Institute for War Studies calculated in a January 26 report how many more drones of this type remain at the disposal of the Russian military.
Experts referred to official data published by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov. twitterAccordingly, Russia has received 750 Iranian kamikaze UAVs Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. As of January 3, the RF Armed Forces had 90 such unmanned aerial vehicles.
On the night of January 26, the Russian army used Iran Shahed for the first time after a long break. The Ukrainian Air Force command reported that 24 kamikaze drones were launched from the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov, fortunately the Ukrainian Armed Forces anti-aircraft missile systems managed to shoot down all of them using warplanes. , mobile firefighters and other destruction vehicles.
Thus, Russia has no more than 66 “Shahed”. As ISW analysts say, this number will be enough for a few large-scale attacks, but it will come to an end if Russia does not get a new party from Iran.
At the end of December, they wrote that Russia received a new batch of kamikaze aircraft from Iran. The ISW noticed a decrease in the effectiveness of drone strikes due to the good performance of Ukraine’s air defense.
The Ukrainian Air Command talked about how the Ukrainian Armed Forces learned to deal with the “Martyrs”. In September 2022, Russia began using Iranian kamikaze drones, which at first caused great damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure, but a month later the Ukrainian army began to shoot down up to 85% of enemy UAVs.
In early January, expert Valery Romanenko spoke about how to permanently stop Iranian drones. According to him, Ukraine needs to learn how to identify and destroy launchers.
Source: Focus
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