Above: Shahed-136 drones thought to have been supplied to Russia
Deborah Haynes – Sky News Nov 9, 2022
Russia flew €140m in cash and a selection of captured UK and US weapons to Iran in return for dozens of deadly drones for its war in Ukraine, a security source has claimed.
A Russian military aircraft secretly transported the cash and three models of munition – a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a US Javelin anti-tank missile and a Stinger anti-aircraft missile – to an airport in Tehran in the early hours of 20 August, the source told Sky News, speaking on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information.
The weapons had been part of a shipment of UK and US military equipment intended for the Ukrainian military that “fell into Russian hands”, according to the source.
The source said they could give Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) the ability to study Western technology and potentially copy it.
“They will probably be reverse-engineered and used in future wars,” the source said.
For its part, Iran supplied Russia with more than 160 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including 100 Shahed-136 drones, the source claimed. These have been nicknamed “suicide drones” because they explode on impact.
The source alleged that a further drone deal worth €200m (£174m) had been agreed between Tehran and Moscow in the past few days.
“That means there will be another big supply of UAVs from Iran soon,” the source said.
The Iranian and Russian governments were approached for a response to the allegations.
President Vladimir Putin’s forces have recently ramped up drone attacks against Ukraine.
Coupled with more conventional missile strikes, they have targeted critical power and water supplies across the country, including in the capital Kyiv.
The barrages have killed civilians, caused widespread blackouts and strained Ukrainian air defences, with costly anti-aircraft missiles deployed to counter much cheaper drones.
Iranian drones ‘crucial part’ of war effort
Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think-tank, said the Iranian drones had become a crucial part of Russia’s war effort.
“If Iran hadn’t supplied the Shaheds, it would be significantly less effective in terms of the Russian strike campaign against Ukrainian electrical infrastructure and water,” he said.
In a potentially even graver threat, the Iranian government has also reportedly agreed to transfer bigger, more sophisticated ballistic missiles to Russia.
Vadym Prystaiko, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, said if the reports were confirmed “this will pose a real, real threat”.
He told Sky News: “If they [Iranian ballistic missiles] come in numbers, we will have real trouble.”
Iran has dismissed the missile allegation as “completely false”, though it did finally admit to supplying “a limited number of drones” to Moscow.
But Hossein Amirabdollahian, the foreign minister, claimed on Saturday that this happened before – not since – Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.
By contrast, Ukraine, the US, the UK and France have all accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia more recently.
The exact total number is not clear. The US said in July it believed the Iranian government was preparing to provide Russia with hundreds of drones.
Russian military cargo planes ‘in Tehran’
Offering evidence of the alleged 20 August drone transaction, the security source shared with Sky News satellite imagery that they said showed two Russian military cargo planes at an airport in Tehran.
The source said one of the Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft was believed to have transported the €140m (£122m) and the captured Western weapons.
Well, it’s very hard to work out the truth.
Iran claims drones were sent to Russia before the SMO, but quite a few vids claim the drones used to great success in UKraine are Russian developed and made.
These are just small details. Over the last 2 months, the fog of war has turned into a dung heap.
The Daily Fail online heads this morning with Bear Grylls goes on secret mission to recover a body on Everest. It has since been removed, but it kind of tells you that Russia is winning big time in UKraine.
The lead on DMOL is M25 chaos. But the police and MI5 could easily stop these prats, but they don’t. Closing the M25 for 1 hour costs the UK economy over £20 million. Maybe the protestors are using deep state stand alone phone systems, or maybe Putin is coordinating the protests.
Surely someone has a rifle with a sight that could take these protestors out?
Where are the van driving lone terror nuts when you need one?
I hear the Iranians are after the blueprints for the F-35. They want to know how not to build a jet fighter.
Naturally, Slavic-Mongol Commies & Iranian wogs are allies to exterminate Germanic Ukrainians..
@ Aleister…
Ukrainians are actually haplogroup R1a with some variation (so called ashkenazi for the R1b) which actually is the same as the Russkies and the Poles and Huns Romanians etc…(central and Eastern indo Europeans).. the original Aryans…
From central Asia into Europe and then forced back East as the R1b’s moved in.. many moons ago..
from..Yes… central Asia.. (northern Eurasia)…all of western Europe is now R1b.. (North and South European Eurasians)…
including the Germans…. and what’s left of the Portuguese…
Funnily enough…
And just as a curiosity white Albanians are R1b and closely related to the Yingglish of pirate rock and ashkenazi so called ‘jews’…
it’s probably why they are all so criminal….
working class hero, Iran already did this!
They have also mastered the art of restoring and maintaining another antique aircraft.
Gosh, I had my name on the side of one of these in 1978.
NB: just from observing the clustering of the groups even today it’s quite apparent that genocide was a common practice in antiquity…
Hitler would have called it social hygiene no doubt… and is most probably the idea behind the current forced mass migration by the usual ‘suspects’.. of distinctly alien interlopers.. from Africa and Central Asia…
so get ready!…
“Surely someone has a rifle with a sight that could take these protestors out?”
There’s nothing like free speech and democracy is there? Once again, lewis shows what an out and out fascist he is.
By the way, I’ve no idea what this protest is about, nor did I even know there was one, so don’t accuse me of being one of them, I just have to laugh at what a huge pile of “good people” britain is.
Since the Middle Ages thousands of Germans migrated to Ukraine over the centuries, thus establishing a Germanic substrata. This is why the Ukrainians look more ‘Germanic’ or Aryan than your average Russian & which is also the source of the antipathy between the Slavic-Mongol Russian masses & the Germanic-Slavic Ukrainians…
let’s shoot lewis: I am not Lewis. I post only under my own name, and I’ve never uses any other name. This is all very boring.
Ashkenazi patrilinear DNA is predominantly J2 haplogroup, a familial characteristic that they share with Turkish men.
Both Slavs and Germans are R1a, of paternal lineage. This is an ethnogenesis sprung from the eastern Aryans; the Medians, the Bactrians and the Persians.
The geographical spread of R1b, from Assyria to England describes the migrations of the Britons, in all of their varied historical expressions, as Cimmerians, Trojans, Etruscans, Gauls and contemporaneously, as the children of Prydain.
The Ashkenazim most likely inherited their (minority) R1b paternal genetics from the Galician Khumry.
Not that I’m blaming the Welsh, mind you.
Getting the other guys weapons is par for the course, the US does it all the time. For instance, at fighter pilot top gun school at nellis afb, pilots are trained against real MIGs. The USAF has a whole squadron of Russian fighter jets.
Do want to know how many drone types there are? Way more than you can imagine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles
But that ain’t nothing compared to Area 51, S4 go look up and read about Bob Lazar, he was reverse engineering captured UFOs. He said they have a hanger with 11 of them. Antigrav is being or has been reversed engineered.
Lockheed Ben Rich – “We can take ET home”
Lockheed Skunk Works director says we can take ET home
Ben Rich “We already have the means to travel among the stars but these technologies are locked up in Black Projects…and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
“We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
– Ben Rich, Former Director of Lockheed Skunk works shortly before his passing.
@ CHESTERTON
I read somewhere a foreigner claiming
portugues citizenship must prove that
he has sephardic ancestors . surely that
is of no concern for the black angolans
like they dont need to observe covid regulations
in whole europa . somewhere else i read that
in interior of portugal the most “christians”
in reality are still jews . portugese Dönmeh
@Aleister: There is absolutely nothing ‘Germanic’ about the Ukrainians. That there is was Stepan Bandera’s very silly invention. Beside, contemporarily the Ukrainians are claiming that they are ‘the real Slavs’, for the Russians are genetically very inter-mixed with the Ugro-Finns. (This is a supportable thesis, particularly linguistically.)
But why is a region called ‘Ukrajina’? ‘Krajina’ means ‘edge’, ‘outskirts’, ‘borderland’, etc. ‘U’ means ‘in’, or ‘on’, in most Slavic languages. So Ukraine is the borderland of a country. Of which country? Linguistically, it has to be Russia, not any other contiguous country. Ukrainians are Russian speakers. What they call the ‘Ukrainian’ today is a language composed by a 19th century poet, Taras Shevchenko, who allegedly based in on the old Kievan Rus. Others tinkered with it later, seeking to give it a formal syntax and lexicology.
I cannot say how much of the now-taught Ukrainian language is actually spoken by Ukrainians. But I rely on the opinion of an English-born ethnic Ukrainian friend, now become a rabid Ukrainian nationalist. She says that most urban Ukrainians are more comfortable speaking Russian, and the agrarian ones have stayed with the dialect. But the devised/created Ukrainian is relentlessly pushed by the nationalists, and the Zelensky government, although Zelensky’s own Ukrainian is poor. Time will tell whether the push succeeds.
Real Aryan means this.
Buying drones from Iran, is this the stupidest story ever or what, Like Ukraine doesn’t buy or get weapons from somewhere else. All this story is telling me is Amonkey is jealous that someone has something better than them. They could most likely find the China supplied parts at Walmart if they looked and the local school kids could build them in their lunch hour. That is if they are not busy shooting their classmates.
I always thought the russians could build their own drones?