Radio technology specialist, military engineer and engineer Sergey «Flash» Bezkrestnov said that Russian engineers expected the mass use of Ukrainian anti-aircraft UAVs against Shahed suicide drones. They have already prepared a countermeasure solution that can be quickly installed on the Shaheds.
Radio technology specialist, military engineer and engineer Sergey «Flash» Bezkrestnov said that Russian engineers expected the mass use of Ukrainian anti-aircraft UAVs against Shahed suicide drones. They have already prepared a countermeasure solution that can be quickly installed on the Shaheds.
According to the military man, he has access to «one closed channel,» where, in particular, there are «people from Alabuga.»
«So they’ve been waiting for a long time for us to start fighting the Shaheds with anti-aircraft drones. It was obvious to everyone. And they’ve already created a evasion system on the front that can be quickly installed on the Shaheds. They’ve been working on it for a long time on the Zal [Russian reconnaissance drone],» said «Flash.»
«Alabuga» is a special economic zone in Tatarstan, which is used for the production of kamikaze drones. According to the international intelligence community InformNapalm, there is reason to believe that it is at the Albatross plant in «Alabuga» that the Russians assemble Iranian Shahed-136s. In the spring of 2024, it was first attacked by Ukrainian drones, and several more such attacks were carried out later.
According to documents obtained by Ukrainian hackers, the planned capacity of Albatross is 1,000 UAVs per year. They also indicate that the Russians plan to start producing 6,000 Shahed drones from mostly Russian materials by July 30, 2025.
In May 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky instructed to «significantly increase our production of interceptor drones» and stated that there would be more funding from partners for this. Later, the SBS reported that during the attack of Russian drones on the Kyiv region on the night of June 1 , 15 enemy drones were shot down by interceptor drones .
«Shaheed hunters» are produced by several Western companies and Ukrainian manufacturers, including Wild Hornets. Serhiy «Flash» calls on the developers of anti-aircraft drones to work ahead of time and take into account Russian countermeasures right now. «If this is not done, the solution will be imperfect from the start,» he notes.
The Flash previously warned that the Russians were testing a gasoline-powered drone with artificial intelligence technology. According to him, this drone could potentially record the operation of air defense and anti-aircraft drones and perform evasive maneuvers.
