#shahed

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Hey people on Tumblr, I have a question for you : do you contribute to your community ? Do you take the initiative to make things better for the people around you ?

I’ve brought up many times about Shahed Abumousa. She’s a 20 year old Palestinian who is studying dentistry and she is doing her best to survive a whole year of horror and violence. Since October last year, she has gone through the bombing of her house, the multiple displacements, the hunger and thirst, the shootings and diseases.

Despite it all, Shahed has dedicated her time, energy, and effort for everyone around her. She has volunteered as medical aid when hospitals were being destroyed one by one, distributed food with her family when she is starving, and taught children who couldn’t go to school in between her classes. Speaking of which, she continues with her education to achieve her degree while fundraising for her family of 7 people’s survival and supplies for her students. She is carrying a lot on her shoulders when she is only 20!

I am asking you once again:, what are you doing for your community? The truth is that most people are doing the bare minimum, if anything at all. So if you want to make a difference, please donate and share. Your contribution will not only help Shahed and her family survive, but it will also help give back to her community. So give what you can because she's stagnating at the halfway mark that she reached only recently after 7 months. She deserves all of our support.

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A short video on Iran's low-cost Shahed-136 drone, which is helping it win the war against the USA, the richest nation on earth. [video]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Drones Like Bicycles | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Assessing the cost of a Shahed kamikaze drone

This simple weapon has thrown the global economy into disarray. Since the US and Israel started an illegal war against Iran on February 28, Iranian forces have responded by launching thousands of Shahed-136 drones at targets across the region. These have struck not just military sites, but also civilian infrastructure, including refineries, power plants, airports, hotels, and ships; the drones have comprised a central element of Iran’s retaliatory strategy, and brought maritime and air traffic to a halt. Gulf Kingdoms, Israel, and the US have expended scarce and expensive interceptor missiles to repel drone attacks. Most interceptions have been successful, but the sheer volume of launches means Iran has hit many of its targets.

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The key finding here is that the production of a Shahed-136 drone is only as resource and labor intensive for Iran as the production of a basic agricultural tractor. As such, the pecuniary comparison understates the feasibility for Iran to continue its current drone campaign. The Iran Tractor Company produces 35,000 tractors a year, even under the significant restrictions of “maximum pressure” sanctions. But a drone is also not much more complex to produce than a small car and Iran’s automotive sector produces over 1,000,000 passenger vehicles annually, supported by a large steel and aluminum industry and ample domestic parts manufacturers. In short, Iran boasts prodigious industrial capacity and materials inventories that can be shifted from civilian to defense production under the urgencies of war. Economic sanctions and export controls failed to impinge on Iran’s ability to produce drones given the low cost of the platform and the move towards indigenization. Now, American and Israeli forces are left to use military force to hit back at Iran’s drone arsenal. Airstrikes have targeted facilities belonging to the maker of the Shahed-136, the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company, also known as HESA. But Iran will respond by dispersing drone production across numerous facilities, including underground locations. US authorities are also in discussions to procure Ukrainian interceptor drones as a more cost-effective means to defend against the Shahed-136. But these systems, while cheaper than using Patriot or THAAD batteries, will only offer a marginal improvement in interception rates, which are already near 100 percent. General Hossein Salami, who led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps until his death in an Israeli airstrike last summer, once told an audience that advances in Iran’s defense industry had made manufacturing weapons systems “as easy as producing bicycles.” The real production cost of the Shahed-136 suggests Salami’s statement was closer to the truth than many would like.

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Ukrainian F-16C shoots down a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone with its M61 Vulcan

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Yesterday Russia has bombed Ukraine with 440 drones, 2 ballistic missiles, 29 cruise missiles and 1 anti-radar missile. Ukrainian anti-aircraft heroes neutralized 402 drones, 2 ballistic missiles, 23 cruise missiles and 1 anti-radar missile 🇺🇦 💪

Ukraine needs more anti-aircraft defense systems to protect its people from russian bombing.

[shafran-saffron]

Shahed drones get me so excited for some reason hehe

THEY COST LIKE 10K DOLLARS EACH (poultry sum for a drone), THEY USE A CHINESE ENGINE FOR MOPEDS, THEY'RE MADE IN IRAN, AND USED MOSTLY BY RUSSIA.

This is the perfect representation of what multipolarity looks like. And its awesome. Like genuinely they're so cool. Shout out to Iran.

[abyster]

‎I am a person with a big ass messenger bag and medicine, matches, needle and thread, and lots of other stuff like kitchen lighter inside of it.

‎A week ago at the hangout I used it to light the campfire to cook meat and potatoes, now I use it to light the gas cook stove because 4 cities of Ukraine has no light and water at the moment, after a massive drone(450) and missile(30) attack this night. My uni friends from dorms have only electrical stoves. Instead of making art, today will be spent in my flat with them boiling eggs and making other food that will not go bad a few days without a freezer.

Most of schools and kindergartens are now filled with volunteer's, mobile power stations and warm food for those who can't get it any other way. Russians cannot advance on the field, so they try to demoralize and kill people beyond the line of fire(12 people got injured by today's attack).

Stay strong, donate, fight, and don't let those fuckers to get the satisfaction from your pain.

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Speaking of saving taxpayer dollars:

Iran’s $20,000–$50,000 Shahed drones are reportedly being shot down with $4 million + Patriot missiles. That’s a 100:1–200:1 cost mismatch. Tehran spends pennies while US and Israel burn millions. Drone swarms are built to drain defenses. How long before the math wins?