Iran boasts of the effectiveness of Iranian kamikaze drones in Ukraine
The head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Iranian Ministry of Defense, Hamzeh Ghalandari, said that last year the alleged effectiveness of Iranian-made weapons became clear to the whole world, apparently referring to kamikaze drones.
Ghalandari said this in an interview with the Iranian IRNA news agency,
"The world was surprised to see that a country that was completely in trouble in all spheres and was denied access to any technology has now reached a level where it is at the technological forefront and its weapons, as the media say, are "game-changing," the Iranian Defense Ministry official said.
Also, according to Ghalandari, Iran allegedly sells weapons to other countries not primarily for financial gain, but "based on its religious and revolutionary ideals."
Although the Iranian official did not specify what the arms were, the Iranian weapons attracted media attention after Russia began to massively use Iranian-made Shahed drones to shell Ukrainian territory.
Officially, Tehran has admitted that it supplied Russia with a small batch of kamikaze drones before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But the media have repeatedly described how Moscow receives weapons from Iran.
According to Ukrainian estimates, Russia has already used more than 400 Shahed-136 drones in Ukraine, and Russia has allegedly ordered 2,400 of these drones in total. Initially, they posed a problem for Ukrainian air defense, but in recent attacks, almost all or all of them have been destroyed.
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