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Shahed-136 - Tracking usage & expanding understanding.

Won't this method be rendered null and void if they replace the two-stroke engine with a quieter electric one?

But the engine is not Iranian made, so maybe it's not cheap for them to replace.

The key of those drones is the price, they are not the best, but certainly they are the cheaper that can move a heavy weigh warhead.

Anyway a radar can detect a flying object much before and precisely than the noisest drone through audio sounds.

The problem from a radar point of view is: Shaheds are small and fly low.
 
But the engine is not Iranian made, so maybe it's not cheap for them to replace.

The key of those drones is the price, they are not the best, but certainly they are the cheaper that can move a heavy weigh warhead.

Anyway a radar can detect a flying object much before and precisely than the noisest drone through audio sounds.

The problem from a radar point of view is: Shaheds are small and fly low.
There's an Iranian reverse-engineered copy of both this engine and electric ones too. I don't think it would be that much of a problem, only the expense might rise slightly for russia.
 
Everything ingenious is simple.

Anyone know why Shahed-136 was renamed to Geran-2?

Тегеран means -> Tehran, pronounced Tegeran

It's named after Tehran

Did I get that right?
@Navigator
Because Russia is not recognising oficially Iranian as drone supplier.

From a Russia official point of view: Geran-2 are Russian made drones and it has nothing to do with Iran (they dont want more Western sanctions I guess :lol:)

And they are lying as they usually do.

There's an Iranian reverse-engineered copy of both this engine and electric ones too. I don't think it would be that much of a problem, only the expense might rise slightly for russia.
Maybe change the engine is easy.
But change the energy source is not.

How a drone will get energy enough to fly hundreds miles without burn fuel? And if you generate electric energy from fuel, the drone will be noisy too and with less space for the warhead.
 
Maybe change the engine is easy.
But change the energy source is not.

How a drone will get energy enough to fly hundreds miles without burn fuel? And if you generate electric energy from fuel, the drone will be noisy too and with less space for the warhead.
Hm, @Hack-Hook, what do you think?
 
How exactly does this drone work ?

Is there a ground station where the operator flys this thing and then when a target appears they go for the hit

Or does this thing work fully autonomously ? With a preprogrammed destination ?

If a operator is needed then a swarm would be difficult you would need 1000s of ground stations
 
How exactly does this drone work ?

Is there a ground station where the operator flys this thing and then when a target appears they go for the hit

Or does this thing work fully autonomously ? With a preprogrammed destination ?

If a operator is needed then a swarm would be difficult you would need 1000s of ground stations
Don't forget, Russia still has one of the best satellites in the world.

A combination of satellite images and UCAVs can Guide a suicide drone to its target. A drone flying in a Preprogrammed path can be jammed, not a good option.
 
Don't forget, Russia still has one of the best satellites in the world.

A combination of satellite images and UCAVs can Guide a suicide drone to its target. A drone flying in a Preprogrammed path can be jammed, not a good option.
They have so good satellites that they dont have a clue when the West smuggles weapons through Ukraine border.

How exactly does this drone work ?

Is there a ground station where the operator flys this thing and then when a target appears they go for the hit

Or does this thing work fully autonomously ? With a preprogrammed destination ?

If a operator is needed then a swarm would be difficult you would need 1000s of ground stations
It doesnt have cameras.

Just inertial guidance, and glonass. So why a operator? it can be written target position before the launch.

But this thread says that another more advanced drones could guide the shahed-136 through a data link.
 
They have so good satellites that they dont have a clue when the West smuggles weapons through Ukraine border.
There are tactics to deceive the best of staellites. It is not hard to send weapons under civilian cover.
 
not hard , let look at army drones like omid and Arash , it seems they use electric engine and we produce various type of batteries
Lithium batteries for just one use in a suicide drone? that's a suicide budget.

And even in that case it has less energy density than fuel.
 

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