What a bird. Military expert-about the characteristics of the Iranian drone Shahd-136, which was armed with the enemy and means of counteracting him

The first such drone was shot down by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on September 12 near Kupyansk in Kharkiv region, and over the last week the aggressor used these aircraft more often - they were noticed in the sky of Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions. And on September 23, Odessa was attacked by three Iranian drones. Despite the fact that one of them was shot down by the Armed Forces, the other two struck the city administrative building, resulting in a resident of Odessa, another was injured.

Video of the day during this time of air defense forces of the Armed Forces destroyed almost one and a half dozen Iranian drones, with it it is known that the Russian army uses the name Geran-2 for them. NV appealed to the editor -in -chief of the Military Portal Defense Express Oleg Katkova to find out how dangerous the use of these drones by the Russian army is. - Tell us what a drone is? - It is not quite a drone in the traditional sense of the word.

Of course, it is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), but it belongs to the class of barrading ammunition, or as they are also called drones-Kamikadze. This UAV does not explore anything, does not return to the starting point, it is disposable and is designed to defeat land purposes. Judging by the appearance of ShahED-136, which can be seen on available video and photographic materials, including Iran, no video camera or some other sensor is visible on this drone.

In view of this, it can be assumed that its only source of guidance is satellite navigation. That is, it is given exclusively to stationary objects on coordinates, which it receives from satellite navigation systems, such as GPS or GLONASS. And given that Iran is under sanctions and apparently does not have access to Western components with a conditional military GPS, it uses a regular GPS civilian sensor, which can be purchased on Aliexpress.