"Significantly effective air defense": The Armed Forces were knocked down by 20 Shahd and Rare Dron "Merlin-WR"

The Iranian UAVs used by Russia have proven to be helpless against the modern echeloric system of air defense, which was created in Ukraine. On the night of May 20, the defenders of Ukraine shot down 20 shock drones and the Merlin-WR reconnaissance drone. The Air Force press service reported. At night, after midnight, Russian troops launched from the north 18 Iranian shock drones of Shahd-131 and Shahd-136, targeting them on objects in the Kiev region.

Center Air Command Units have been able to destroy the aircraft in time with air defense. On the evening of May 19, the Armed Forces destroyed two Shahd drones in the eastern direction, and also destroyed the Russian UAV "Merlin-BR" in the south of Ukraine. In total, in May 19-20, the planes of Ukrainian tactical aviation have already made up to 30 departments for covering and firing defeat of the enemy. "Normally in Kiev, the" shamed "was" marked ".

This once again demonstrates that the miscarriage ",-Alexander Kovalenko commented the military-political observer of the Information Resistance group. As for Merlin-BP, it is an experimental drone of Russian production, first presented in September 2021. The Russians did not report the tests, mass production or adoption of such UAVs, but in June 2022 the Armed Forces shot down the first such apparatus in the territory of Ukraine.