They obviously have every right to be angry at us
But this was predictable. Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs should've predicted it very easily.
Certainly.
They just getting started, I don't know about UCAVs but suicide drones will likely continue to be delivered in a stream. Essentially Russia now has free reign to hit any location it wants without worry of losing 60$ million dollar aircraft or using a $300,000 missile. Worse case, it gets intercepted by a $50k-$200k missile and you fire another one.
AAA is frankly to short range to be effective at this battlefront only for point defence, like protecting artillery systems.
If Russia could be so kind as to use them in a swarm of 5, that would be nice.
Any news on what Iran got from Russia for these drones? We know that the Russians are using them very effectively and it has definitely helped them on the battlefield.
But what is Iran getting out of Russia? Reminder : last time Russia sold (offensive) weapons to Iran was 30 years ago.
When are people going to wake up?
First guess would be some sort of barter deal. We heard the news about the ISR satellites, joint production.
For example, the delivery of 1,000 suicide UAVs + UCAVs, Iran gets 5 intelligence gathering satellites with 1m resolution. Those satellites alone are worth tens of millions so, if you assume a cost of 20k per S-136, 1000 Shaheds might be the value of a single Kanupos-5 satellite which is a very critical asset to have and something they really needed.
Also money of course can happen.
