Russia is producing thousands of drones based on Iranian Shahed designs. Some feature AI, remote piloting and advanced anti-jamming tech.

Ukraine and NATO thus need far cheaper solutions compared to missiles like the Patriot to fight Shaheds, Maj. Gen. Christian Freuding said.

Iran’s Defense Ministry says one of its factories was attacked by drones in the central city of Isfahan. Iran reports drone attack on defense facility - Los Angeles Times

Bomb-carrying drones struck an Iranian military facility in the city of Isfahan overnight — though two out of three aircraft were caught in “defense traps,” authorities said early Sunda…

Russia's Shahed-style one-way attack drones are used in nightly bombardments against Ukrainian cities.

The drone attack comes at a tense time in Iran, which has faced more than four months of protests against the rule of the Islamic Republic. The government has responded with brutal crackdowns, ...

Israel learned from the 2024 attacks. During the 12-day war in June, Israel focused on taking out Iranian missile launchers, and it appears many of them were destroyed in the war.

Shahed-style drones are deadly systems that Russia has been using to strike Ukrainian cities for nearly three years.

Iranian drones have been deployed in numerous attacks against Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and, last October, a U.S. base in Syria, according to intelligence officials.

The Iran attack was in response to the U.S. drone strike earlier that month near the Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Russia's drone production has expanded so much that within months, it might be able to launch up to 2,000 of the devices in a single night, according to a report. Moscow fired another barrage of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities overnight Sunday.