"Russian Federation cannot produce thousands of drones": the expert explained why you don't need to panic

Last week, Rossia 1 TV showed the plot about the production of drones-Kamikadze "Lancet"-Zala Aero asserts that it has increased 50 times and could collect tens of thousands of such devices per month. And the day before there was information about mass production in Russia of Iranian drones-Kamikadze Shahd-136. "There is no technical and technological opportunity in Russia to produce thousands of drones of one type or another in a completely closed cycle," said Alexander Kovalenko.

He recalled that in October 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that at that time there were 2,000 UAVs in service, and served it as a great achievement. The Russians were able to make so many drones in a few years in much calmer times than it is now a full -scale war, the introduction of rigid international sanctions and economic decline. The expert does not believe that during the year and a half the war of the Russian Federation would be able to increase production at times.

"Even in Iran itself, as of the fall of 2022, an average of 50 drones of Shahd-136. By the end of 2022-early 2023 managed to get closer to production indicator to 100 Shahd-136 per month. This is production in the country in which all for this process It is configured and adjusted, "the analyst emphasized.

Oleksandr Kovalenko noted that the Russians write on video and show almost every successful blow to their drones-Kamikadze "Lancet" in the territory of Ukraine, and such cases are by no means thousands. Over the last month, he has counted less than 100 rollers in open sources. In June, the forces of Ukraine, according to official data, were shot down by 414 UAVs, 166 of them-Shahd-136, and 248-other models, including Russian. In July, the "non -nashads" already 255.

According to Kovalenko's observations, from a month to month the number of "lancets lost", "eagles" and other drones is almost unchanged, and therefore they are not much more. "When someone gets another whistle that Russia can produce tens of thousands of drones and that all of us will be attacked by hundreds of Shahd-136 and" Lancet-3 "every day. For a monkey with a grenade, "he summed up. On July 16, Zala Aero introduced a new version of Lancet drones in Russia.