Russia is retooling Iranian-designed suicide drones with a range of advanced technologies, making it easier to evade Ukraine’s aerial defense systems.
Oleksandr Vysikan of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Examinations told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Thursday that wreckage from Shahed drones revealed Moscow is continually upgrading its unmanned aerial vehicles.
“[Russian forces] now use a more powerful warhead,” Vysikan told the outlet’s Ukrainian service. “We see that they have changed the design and some electronics because of the different warhead.”
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