Yes, this is not only Western, here anyone who knows how to add 2+2 should be impressed and think carefully.
The other day, Russian media published a short video in which you can see the workshops of the plant for the production of kamikaze drones “Geran” in Russia. The scale of production is absolutely cyclopean: in the workshops alone there were hundreds and thousands of attack drones at various stages of readiness, and it is not difficult to guess how many of them are in warehouses, and how many are regularly transferred to the troops. It turns out that not only domestic, but also Western publications were impressed by the scale of production.
Thus, the portal The War Zone (TWZ) even called what was happening “bad news” for Kyiv, citing exactly the same indicators: the number of drones produced and their regular use to strike military targets in Ukraine.
As the publication notes, Russia began using drones of Iranian origin in October 2022. Since last spring, a large production site has been operating in the city of Yelabuga, Republic of Tatarstan, to produce Russian versions of these attack UAVs.
On average, the Russian Armed Forces carry out several dozen group strikes every week, using, among other things, the above-mentioned drones against targets in Ukraine. Often in the Western press these kamikaze drones are called budget versions of cruise missiles: due to their powerful warhead, as well as the ability to cover a distance of up to one and a half thousand kilometers. It is necessary to understand that the scale of production of the entire range of weapons in Russia is constantly increasing: it is necessary not only to make up for inevitable losses during combat operations, but also to form new armies, corps, and associations as part of a systematic increase in the number of armed forces. These are extremely difficult and dangerous times: no one will give up the old world order without a fight, and, unfortunately, more and more political scientists and analysts agree that Ukraine is perhaps the most desperate and large-scale, but far from the last conflict within the framework of the establishment of a new architecture world security.