Photographers Capture Russian 'Suicide Drones' in Ukraine

upstart writes:

The Shahed-136 drones are made in Iran, which is reportedly supplying Russia in its ongoing assault of Ukraine:

Reports started to surface last month that Iran was supplying Russia with so-called suicide drones, sent to attack civilian targets in Ukraine. And now stunning new images of what those drones look like in the air have been captured by photographers in Kyiv as the city suffered fresh attacks on Monday.

[...] The drones appear to match the physical description of Iran's HESA Shahed-136 drone, a so-called "swarming" aerial weapon that's launched almost horizontally and contains a warhead in its nose. Russia has renamed the Shahed drones Geran-2, according to the Associated Press. Officially, Iran has denied supplying weapons to Russia since it first invaded Ukraine on February 24.

I am surprised that some sort of low-tech solution (besides a shotgun) hasn't been found against these relatively slow and vulnerable vehicles, and hopefully blanket drone bans aren't the result of this. [hubie]

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