War of drones, from Syria to Ukraine

There is no longer any doubt about the importance of “ Syrian laboratory ” in the general offensive of Russia against Ukraine. It was in Syria that the Kremlin tested, then trivialized terror techniques targeting the civilian population to better weaken the armed opposition: systematic destruction of bridges, schools and hospitals; Simulacres of “humanitarian corridors” to better trap civilians believing to escape hell; Compressor roller of the invader aimed at leaving the population only the alternative between submission and exodus, all against a background of UN paralysis by Russian veto.

In addition, General Sergei Sourovikine, whom Vladimir Putin appointed to the head of “the special military operation”, last October, led the Russian troops in Syria for a long time. And it is as soon as it is taking office that Iranian integration of Russian bombing waves proven to be devastating for energy infrastructure, with the displayed objective of breaking the Ukrainian resistance in the free winter .

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The ASSAD diet very early with Iranian observation drones, of Mohajer-4 or Ababil-3 type, with a hundred kilometers. They are produced by Iranian Aircraft Manufacturing Industries, a company designated by its Persian acronym from Hesa. These armaments have names with a strong Islamic resonance, Mohajer meaning “emigrant”, in reference to Mecca converted to Islam which, in 622, accompanied the Prophet Mohammed in his hegira to Medina. As for the Ababil, they designate in the Koran the birds which would have protected, around 570, the Mecca against the invaders from Yemen.

The setbacks of the Assad regime in the face of the revolutionary insurgency forced Iran, from 2012-13, to engage more and more in Syria, either directly through the Guardians of the Revolutionary, or Indirectly through the Lebanese Hezbollah, then pro-Iranian militias from Iraq. This Iranian commitment was accompanied by a ramp -up of the drones used, with this time entering the Shahed (“martyr”) combat drones 123, then 129.

The Syria campaign triggered the Kremlin, in September 2015, to save the ASSAD regime threatened with collapse, leads to an operational collaboration of an unprecedented intensity between the Russian and Iranian forces. This is particularly true at the Tiyas air base, known as T-4, close to Palmyra, where the contingents of the two countries coexist. It is on this basis that Iranian engineers assemble and operate the Shahed-129, testing and perfecting their combat capacities, by boarding an anti-tank missile.

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