Posted on 09/13/2022 2:09:56 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukraine's military claimed Tuesday for the first time that it encountered an Iranian-supplied suicide drone used by Russia on the battlefield, showing the deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran as the Islamic Republic's tattered nuclear deal with world powers hangs in the balance.
U.S. intelligence publicly warned back in July that Tehran planned to send hundreds of the bomb-carrying drones to Russia to aid its war on Ukraine. While Iran initially denied it, the head of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has boasted in recent days about arming the world's top powers.
The Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate published images of the wreckage of the drone. It resembled a triangle, or delta-shaped, drone flown by Iran known as the Shahed, or “Witness” in Farsi.
The military official and the website both said Ukrainian troops encountered the drone near Kupiansk amid Kyiv's offensive that has punched through Russian lines around Kharkiv on the eastern front.
The image suggested the Shahed drone had been shot down by Ukrainian forces and hadn't detonated on impact as designed, though little other information was immediately released by Kyiv. An inscription on the drone identified it as an "M214 Gran-2," which didn't immediately correspond to known Russian weaponry.
Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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FR Mullah Putin Stooges worst affected.
Why does that (see headline) matter? War is a nasty business no moralizing please. All arms dealers are nefarious by nature.
Not exactly “deepening ties.” Russia and Iran have been long time allies.
Russia and Iran have been long time allies.
“Allies”, like Hitler and Stalin were “Allies”.
This is my shocked face.
If you’re buying techy arms from the towel heads, you’re infrastructure is weak. Having said that, is it possible Iran is just marketing Chinese stuff?
Must have been the Ghost of Kiev that downed it..
Was there balsa wood involved?
—”FR Mullah Putin Stooges worst affected.”
But the vatnicks are a bit dense and fail to understand.
—”is it possible Iran is just marketing Chinese stuff?”
More like?
Iran is just marking up Chinese stuff and drop shipping...
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