Shahed Drones Against Ukraine! Sounds as sinister as they look

The "Shahed-136" drone, renamed by Russia as "Geran", which was originally developed in Iran, supplied with components from China and assembled in Russia with the help of North Korean labor, sounds as sinister as it looks, writes The Times, quoted by Focus.

The international cooperation behind this unmanned aerial vehicle symbolizes the formation of a new "axis of evil", united by a common hostility to the West. Especially since China’s foreign minister is said to have recently told the EU’s top diplomat that Beijing is interested in continuing the war in Ukraine so that the US cannot focus entirely on China.

The media reports that this statement coincides with the fact that the drone’s four-cylinder engine was manufactured by the Chinese company Xiamen Limbach, and its transmitters, signal generators and converters were manufactured by the Beijing Institute of Microelectronics Technology.

These slow but extremely destructive drones have played an important role in intensifying Russian attacks. On Friday (July 4), just hours after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin carried out its largest single drone and missile strike on Ukraine since the war began.

Last summer, Russia launched an average of 350 "Shahed" drones per month. Last month, 5,438 launches were recorded.

The "Coalition of the Ascendant", made up of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, rejects the idea that the United States can simply "move" from Ukraine to Taiwan. These situations are inextricably linked, the article states. That is why Washington must take into account the connections between the military-industrial complexes of its opponents and remember that in 21st-century warfare, almost nothing happens in isolation.