🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 PENTAGON IN PANIC: U.S. BASES FACE RUSSIA’S UPGRADED SHAHED ATTACK DRONES U.S. bases across the Middle East face a more dangerous Shahed threat as reports indicate that Russia is returning battlefield-tested upgrades to the Iranian design. AP reported in March that upgraded Russian-built drones were being sent to... Tehran, while Reuters later said Western analysts were examining whether Russian technology helped Iranian drones strike CIA facilities in Riyadh and eastern Iraq. 🔸 Iran originally supplied Russia with the Shahed-136 design. Russia then established mass production of its Geran-2 derivative and refined it through years of large-scale combat use. 🔸 Russian development work has produced Shahed variants with improved satellite navigation, stronger protection against jamming, new radio links, cameras and upgraded flight computers. Other versions have appeared with jet engines and onboard AI, although AP’s sources did not identify which variants were reportedly sent to Iran. 🔸 Reuters cited two Western officials who believed Russian-enhanced Shaheds were used in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. One drone reportedly opened a hole in the building before a second passed through it and detonated near the CIA station. No casualties were reported. 🔸 Western intelligence sources also claim Russia supplied Iran with the Kometa-M satellite-navigation module, designed to maintain greater accuracy under electronic attack. The Kremlin dismissed the report as “fake news.” 🔸 Faster and harder-to-jam drones create an expensive problem for defenders. Low-cost Shaheds can arrive in waves, forcing U.S. forces to consume limited stocks of missiles that cost far more than the targets they destroy. 🔸 AP’s sources could not confirm the number or exact type of drones involved. But access to Russian navigation, communications and anti-jamming upgrades could matter more than the size of a single shipment. Iran supplied the original design. Russia mass-produced it, improved it under years of battlefield pressure and may now be returning those lessons to Tehran. For U.S. bases, the danger is not one drone but repeated salvos that are harder to jam, faster to adapt and far cheaper than the missiles used to stop them. Do you think upgraded Shaheds could change the balance in the U.S.-Iran conflict?show more

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