According to the Odessa Daily, citing a military expert, Russia has allegedly upgraded the guidance system of the Iranian Shahd-136 Kamikaze drone, enhancing its lethality and accuracy to Ukrainian targets.
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Iranian drone attacks have wreaked havoc on Ukrainian cities, which highlights how Russia actively uses Iran-made attack drones to support its military operations in Ukraine.
Military expert Alexander Kovarenko revealed that the inertial guidance system of the Russian drone produced in Iran was replaced by the Russian satellite navigation system Glonas control unit.
According to Kovarenko , the Kamiboshahede-136 drone has been modified by Russian engineers. He emphasized that Moscow has now installed the domestic Glonas control module to replace the inertial navigation system, which is the standard configuration of these drones.
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GLONAS , i.e. GLONAS , is the Russian counterpart of the US Global Positioning System or GPS, GPS, commonly known as GPS , is designed for military and home applications.
These devices significantly increase the effective application range of Shahed-136, and even such improvements cannot achieve real-time control or maneuverability of drones.
This is likely because, according to the observations in recently published videos and image materials, the Shahed-136 does not appear to have a camera or any other sensor.
In view of this, it is reasonable to assume that its only navigation source is satellite , in other words, it only uses coordinates from Glonas and other satellite navigation system to guide itself to find the stationary object.
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Iran is sanctioned and seems unable to access Western components using traditional military GPS, which uses standard civilian GPS sensors that can be obtained from AliExpress.
I would like to draw attention to Russia's involvement in improving the characteristics of another terrorist country Iran's drone drone through its GLONAS system.
The size of the warhead has been reduced due to the addition of a new guidance device.
Russia appears to be using Iranian drones to carry out ongoing air military operations against Ukraine to weaken Ukraine's determination to resist, and as winter approaches, Russia tries to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
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Why does Russia need to perform such an upgrade?
US Defense analyst Smith told the Eurasian Times, "While GLONAS has a slightly lower accuracy than GPS, it is completely controlled by Russia.
This means that there is no risk of artificially reducing the accuracy of Ukrainian GPS, nor will it reduce the accuracy of the wandering ammunition used by Russia.
Smith told the Eurasian Times that David Hamblin, who closely monitors Russia's conflict with Ukraine, emphasized several satellite navigation systems being used worldwide, including the United States. GPS, European Galileo and Chinese Beidou .
However, he said that using Russian navigation systems has advantages over using GPS, including the ability to use encrypted military-grade GLONAS signals, which may be more accurate than open source GPS signals, and the ability to use GLONAS electronics made in Russia without having to import GPS.
Russia uses Shahd-136 while interfering with GPS signals used by Ukrainian troops.
At the same time, the Iranian regime denied providing drones to Russia for use in Ukraine, and on the other hand, Moscow also refuted the purchase of Iranian drones.
On October 18, Russian Presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the media that Russia uses domestic drones.
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When asked if Russia bought or was using Iranian drone, Peskov replied: "No, we don't have such information.
The hardware used is Russian, you know, it has a Russian name, you can ask all other questions to the Ministry of Defense.
Russian unmanned military system expert Samuel Bendt Security research organization with office in Virginia 3 said that the Shahed-136 relies on small civilian engines and commercial GPS system, making it susceptible to interference and fairly easy to dismantle.
Iranian commentator Heshmat Alave made a similar point in his discussion with the Eurasian Times, pointing out that “Russia has always had some problems with drones. It has been reported that Ukrainian troops have intercepted as many as 85% of Iranian drones shipped to Russia. "
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" Ukrainians were also able to capture the Iranian drones used by Russia intact," he added. Nevertheless, using Iranian drones is crucial to Russia because of its insufficient missile supply and cannot maintain daily strikes to civilian sites.
