British Intelligence Claims That Russia Has Run Out of Iranian Suicide Drones, Could It Be Real or False?

British Intelligence Claims that Russia has Run Out of Iranian Suicide Drones, Real or False?
Western media says that Russia may be running out of supply of Iranian drones after a series of bombings in Ukraine. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images

British intelligence indicates that Iranian suicide drones are all out, but it might be unreal news as the west has been inaccurate in its claims.

British Intelligence Claims Are Misinformation

After having made Iranian kamikaze drones like Shahed-136 the lynchpin of its drone attacks against Ukraine, the Russian stockpiles of UAVs now are getting low, as said by British intel, reported EurAsian Times.

As shown in the latest update from the British Defense Intelligence, hardly a Russian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attack was widely disclosed from about November 17, 2022. Moscow has nearly depleted its existing supply and may seek a rearming.

The reports come despite intense Russian military strikes on Ukrainian generation and energy facilities amid an approaching winter. It has also been disclosed that Moscow is obtaining Iranian ballistic missiles because its missiles are running low, said to western media reports. UK intelligence continues to follow media stories that alluded to Russia's potential production of Iran-origin drones.

The Washington Post reported recently that Iran and Russia could have silently decided to allow the production of Iranian UAVs in Russia.

An alleged discussion in Iran was about plans to make drones in Russia. They were used in September when numbers of the UAVs had pounded Ukraine. These loitering munitions or suicide drones and conventional reusable carrying weapons systems have made Kyiv cringe in fear.

If drones need rearming, then Moscow would seek additional Iranian suicide drones. British Intelligence shows Moscow will likely buy UAVs from overseas more than making them instead.

Iranian UAVs were deployed for the first time this September, but Ukraine claims that Moscow has used Iranian drones since the war began in February 2022, if not longer. The unparalleled use of unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Ukraine's urban areas and infrastructure provoked an accelerated shipment of western military equipment to Kyiv.

NATO-supplied Kyiv is already best prepared to fend off Russian air attacks, which hesitate to disappear notwithstanding the territory emergence of a severe winter.

Iranian Drones Shook the UAF

It was heavily publicized that Moscow must have completely drained its large stash of sophisticated, surgical strike projectiles, owing to that, it has had to switch to cheap Iranian drones.

According to a spokesperson of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate, 120 Iskander ballistic missiles are left in the Russian arsenal, citing Euronews.

In October, Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate, claimed Russia bought many UAVs from Iran because their missile stockpile was almost gone.

The Intel chief informed Pravda that Russia had been forced to implement Iranian drones since it had few missiles and might efficiently and reliably fire them.

British intelligence informed that Iranian suicide drones used by Russia had been depleted both the UK and Ukraine have been known to make up facts.

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