Die Ukraine „leitet“ von Iran entwickelte Kamikaze-Drohnen zurück nach Russland

A couple of weeks old article, but I haven’t seen a post about this before:

**Russia-produced drones are being guided back through airspace and ‘returned to sender’, according to sources**

Ukraine has learned how to hack the Iranian-designed kamikaze drones that are flooding its airspace and send them back to Russia and Belarus, according to reports.

Russia is now producing over 6,000 Shahed-style drones at a plant in Yelabuga, in the south-eastern Tatarstan region, per year. Its forces fire between 30 and 80 of the “loitering munitions” in the direction of Ukrainian cities each day.

The volume of attacks has been a challenge for Ukraine’s air defence units, which are running low on costly, Western surface-to-air missiles.

On Tuesday, Russian armed forces fired 188 Shahed drones and four Iskander-M ballistic missiles towards Ukraine, a new record in 1,000 days of war, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Ukraine says it was unable to stop the Iskanders but did manage to prevent 90 per cent of the drones from reaching their targets.

Ninety-five of the drones were successfully “redirected” from their original targets towards Russian soil, according to Le Monde which cited a “source close to Ukrainian military intelligence”.

This was done by a practice of “spoofing” – usurping satellite co-ordinates – which is used by drones and missiles to guide themselves through the airspace, confirmed the source.

“These drones are not rogue but are intentionally sent back to Russia and Belarus,” the source is cited as saying.

Le Monde said that this ability to “return to sender” has not been publicly acknowledged by Russian nor the Belarusian authorities.

The Shahed-136, a drone with a 3.5m wingspan carrying an explosive charge of 40-50kg, has a range of up to 1,000km (621 miles).

Its characteristic moped-like sound has become eerily familiar to the Ukrainian population after two years of bombing.

Designed by Iran as a cheap prowler munition, it has been manufactured with a few modifications under licence by Russia for the last year and a half in a factory in Tatarstan, under the name of “Geran-2”.

Its explosive charge was originally designed to destroy buildings but it now also carries charges designed to kill via fragmentation or thermobaric bombs.

A new drone called “Gerber” derived from the Geran-2, emerged in November. While it carries no explosive charge, it is designed to saturate Ukrainian anti-aircraft defences.

The attacks have become more numerous and increasingly complex. After each, sources close to the Ukrainian air force have published maps showing their individual trajectories and how they evaded Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence systems.

These increasingly convoluted trajectories often see drones ending up in unexpected air space. Between Nov 24 and 26, 43 Shahed-type drones crossed the border into Belarus, forcing the Moscow ally to scramble fighter jets four times to hunt them down.

Last month, The Telegraph revealed that Ukraine is developing a drone capable of intercepting the Shahed-136s instead of conventional air defence munitions to protect Ukrainian cities against Russian barrages.

The classified “Sting” first-person view Shahed-hunter will be able to fly faster than 100mph and at altitudes nearing 10,000ft, according to its developers, the Wild Hornets group.

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Hahahaha! Amazing! 😍

Would be superb if new coordinates could be entered and they would strike Russia instead.