Incidents

The Armed Forces were shot down for the first time Iranian Dron-Kamikadze Shahd-136-the command of the Air Force of Ukraine (photo)

The means of air defense were shot down by the Iranian barrel ammunition in the Nikolaev area. The Ukrainian military knocked down the Iranian Dron-Kamikadze Shahd-136 and the Russian Su-25 Storm. About it reports the Air Force Command on Facebook. On September 20, in the area of ​​16:00, in the Nikolaev area forces and means of air defense of the Air Command "South" was shot by the Iranian projectile Shahd-136, which was supplied to Russian troops.

In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation it is marked as "Geran-2". Also at about 17:00 the fighters of the anti-aircraft missile brigade were knocked down by another Russian Su-25 Storm. ShahED-136 is a bargage ammunition that weighs 200 kg. Its wingspan is 2. 5 meters. There is no reliable information about the characteristics of the UAV. It was known that it was used in Yemen in 2020. According to Military Factory, about 100 Shahd-136 was produced in total.