From November last year to May 2024, we have never seen a raid of a thousand Shahed drones in a month.
Some Western publications write that Russia plans to produce six thousand Shahed drones per year in Tatarstan. Last November, the media already wrote that the Russian Federation could assemble a thousand drones per month. However, this has nothing to do with reality.
Alexander Kovalenko, a military-political observer of the Information Resistance group, wrote about this on his page on the social network.
According to him, from November last year to May 2024, we never saw a raid of a thousand Shahed drones in a month. The Russian Federation launched the maximum Shahed-136 in 2024 in March – 603 kamikaze drones.
At the same time in other months:
“In addition, after Iran’s large-scale combined attack on Israel, Russia’s dependence on supplies from the Islamic Republic was definitely determined. Russia’s use of the Shahed-136 then sharply decreased, longer pauses of several days began to occur between raids, and only after the resumption of Iranian Air Force flights to Moscow did air raids drones began to return to a systemic nature,” said Alexander Kovalenko.
He notes that the Russian Federation still depends on supplies of drones and components for them from Iran.
“And under such conditions, producing six thousand a year is not a near-term prospect. And now the most important thing. In this note, I am not saying that Russia will never reach the Shahed-136 use rate of six thousand per year, I am saying that in current conditions it does not have the prospect of producing six thousand per year. I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that The Wall Street Journal published an almost similar article a little less than a year and a half ago, which once again speaks to the need not only to check the information thrown into space, but also to at least basicly explain what reality is today in order “hype tales about a thousand Shahed-136 per month were not born,” noted the military expert.
He also added that such “apocalyptic stories” are useful for Western audiences to put pressure on our partners.
“For they move at a snail’s pace, but our people already have enough stress every day to add more stories of such tailoring to their difficult lives,” Kovalenko emphasized.
Recall that in the Russian Taganrog on May 26, drones could attack an aircraft repair plant.
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