A group of Russians visiting Iran for purpose of gleaning instruction pertaining to drone manufacturing was compelled to shelter in a hotel during an Israeli strike on a munitions factory in the east-central Iranian city of Isfahan. The Russian assemblage’s visit to Isfahan evinces Moscow’s ambition to establish a drone-production facility in Russia with the help of on-again-off-again Russian ally, Iran. Specifically, Moscow aspires to facilitate Russian domestic production of a variant of Iran’s Shahed-136 drone—known colloquially as the Geran-2.
The U.S., on Friday, 18 August 2023, approved requests set forth by Denmark and the Netherlands to export American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. The decision speaks at once to significant advancements in both Kyiv’s military capabilities and the Western World’s progress in the direction of a third world war.
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