Iran Requested New Russian Geran Drones for Attacks on Israeli, American Targets Amid War
- On Sunday, the Financial Times reported that Tehran requested Russia's new generation of Geran drones earlier this year during the Israeli-US conflict, citing Western security officials and Kremlin sources.
- These jet-powered Geran-4 and Geran-5 models recently entered the Russia-Ukraine war, offering enhanced evasion capabilities and thermal vision with AI-powered targeting over their propeller-powered predecessors.
- The advanced Geran-5 carries a 90-kilogram warhead at 600 kph, dramatically outpacing the first-generation Geran's 20-kilogram warhead and 185 kph top speed, with both models offering longer ranges.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia in March of supplying Iranian-designed Shahed drones, telling CNN's Fareed Zakaria it is "100% facts" that Iran used Russian-made Shaheds against US bases.
- Pro-Kremlin media reported the Geran-5 can be deployed by Russian Sukhoi-25 fighter jets that Tehran purchased in 2025, while incorporating Chinese mesh radio network modems for enhanced survivability.
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Russia’s new jet drones are better at evading Ukrainian air defenses, but experts say Moscow’s drone program is ‘critically dependent’ on Chinese components
Russia has made a “leap forward” in the mass production of long-range drones and cruise missiles that are far better at evading interception, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times report.
The newest Russian jet drones, "Geran-5", writes the British edition of The Financial Times, far surpass previous models and alter the nature of the air war.
Russia's drone capabilities have improved to such an extent that this year Tehran turned to Moscow with a request to supply advanced Geran drones for use in the conflict with Israel and the United States, the Financial Times reports, citing Western security officials and sources close to the Kremlin. The publication notes that Geran is a modernized version of the Shahed drone (an Iranian development), the production of which Russia will begin in…
Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US
Russia turned Iran's imported Shahed into a jet that flies at up to 600 km/h, with a new airframe closer to a cruise missile than to the propeller drone Tehran sent it.
Russia's new jet-powered Garan-4 and Garan-5 drones, with speeds of up to 600 km/h and a range of 1,000 km, are challenging Ukraine's air defenses. Interception rates have dropped to 60%.
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