return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIran’s retaliatory attack on Israel has begun, over 100 attack drones launchedwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down18
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minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-25 months agoIran builds them. Iran has supplied Russia with a ton of them to use against Ukraine, if you’ve been following the conflict there – cheap, long-range drones are something theylve specialized in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136 For components that they can’t build, they’ll do stuff like have someone buy stuff in some other country, move it into Iran from there. There was some discussion about them using motors built by an Irish lawnmower motor company a while back, that I recall, for one particular instance.
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIf I remember correctly, the propulsion motor is repurposed from a Chinese moped. Cheap and plentiful.
Iran builds them. Iran has supplied Russia with a ton of them to use against Ukraine, if you’ve been following the conflict there – cheap, long-range drones are something theylve specialized in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136
For components that they can’t build, they’ll do stuff like have someone buy stuff in some other country, move it into Iran from there.
There was some discussion about them using motors built by an Irish lawnmower motor company a while back, that I recall, for one particular instance.
If I remember correctly, the propulsion motor is repurposed from a Chinese moped. Cheap and plentiful.