UAVs have become an important weapon in the Russian-Ukrainian war: according to sources, early in the morning of August 20 this year, a Russian plane was secretly carrying 140 million euros (nearly 4.5 billion Taiwan dollars) in cash. and the next generation of British Anti-War Arms (NLAW) light vehicles, as well as American Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran airports in exchange for Iranian drones.
According to Sky News and The Drive reported on the 8th, the sources, who asked not to be named due to the disclosure of sensitive information, said that these British and American weapons originally destined for Ukraine have fallen into the hands of the Russians and could provide research related to Western technology for the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and reverse engineer it. “They could be decoded and used in future wars.”
As for Iran, Russia has supplied more than 160 drones, of which 100 were Shahed-136 suicide drones. Furthermore, according to sources, Tehran and Moscow recently reached an agreement to conduct another transaction worth 200 million euros (nearly 6.4 billion Taiwan dollars). This means that Iran will soon supply Russia with a large batch of drones, the source said.
Justin Bronk, an air combat expert at the Royal Service Institute (RUSI), a British think tank, said Iranian drones have become an important part of the Russian military’s attack on Ukraine. . “If Iran had not provided ‘witnesses’, the attack on Ukraine’s electricity and water infrastructure would have been significantly less effective.”
Perhaps a more serious threat is that the Iranian government is said to have agreed to supply Russia with larger and more sophisticated ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, said that if reports confirmed this it would indeed pose a real threat.
