The wreckage of a Shahed attack drone with a Russian Comet-M4 radio-electronically protected CRPA antenna was discovered at the British RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus, which is a NATO facility.
The wreckage of a Shahed attack drone with a Russian Comet-M4 radio-electronically protected CRPA antenna was discovered at the British RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus, which is a NATO facility.
According to Anatoly Khrapchinsky, the director of development at the defense enterprise and a reserve Air Force officer, this find is direct evidence that Russia and Iran have created a single military assembly line, where Russian specialists are using the experience of the war against Ukraine to modernize weapons for strikes against Western targets.
The presence of such a four-element antenna means that the designers deliberately prepared the drone to operate in conditions of lack of dense electronic warfare countermeasures.
"The Russia-Iran axis has done a great job of analyzing Western defenses in the Middle East. They realized that there is no such total saturation of electronic warfare there as there is now in Ukraine, and purposefully equipped drones to break through the weakened air defenses of the allies," Khrapchinsky writes.
MP Oleksandr Fedienko explained the appearance of these antennas in the Middle East by the fact that the Russians most likely sold or exchanged them due to the impossibility of effective use on the Ukrainian front.
According to him, due to the scale of our defense, such Russian modules have lost their effectiveness in Ukraine, and now domestic developers can already supply partners with their own kinetic and electronic countermeasure technologies for reliable protection against such air threats anywhere in the world.
In total, 11 countries have already been affected by Iranian attacks, including Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE.
