Shahed Drones

Iran’s Cheap Drones Challenge Gulf Air Defence Strategy, Expensive Interceptors Risk Rapid Ammunition Depletion During Prolonged Conflict

The Arabian Peninsula’s air-defence architecture is confronting a problem that cannot be solved by simply adding more sophisticated missiles: the widening economic gap between inexpensive Iranian drones and the multimillion-dollar interceptors used to destroy them. The challenge has become increasingly...
Shahed Drone, Iran

Iran’s 80,000-Shahed Drone Arsenal Claim Sparks Concern Over Global Shift From Precision Strikes to Endurance Drone Warfare

Claims that Iran now possesses up to 80,000 combat-ready Shahed loitering munitions, while producing as many as 400 drones per day with reported Russian assistance, have vaulted Tehran’s unmanned warfare programme into the centre of global strategic debate. If operationally...