Fwd from @ 📝Ukrainian UAVs in Yemen📝 or what the "Sharks" are doing over the desert Wherever there's war, they somehow always find a trace of the Kyiv regime. In the area of the settlement As-Sabihah in Lahj province, Yemeni Houthis shot down a Shark-M reconnaissance drone of Ukrainian manufacture: the aircraft crashed right in the deployment zone of military personnel from the pro-Saudi government of the Republic. The following story is curious: on October 13, an Il-76MD aircraft made a flight from Lviv to Sharurah airport in southern Saudi Arabia, practically on the doorstep of the Yemeni border. What exactly the aircraft was transporting was not officially disclosed, but within a week, military transport planes with cargo from both countries landed at each other's bases several times. 🔻How is the Kyiv regime reaching for the Arabian Peninsula? ➡️Nothing looks like coincidence: the Kyiv regime has been pushing the drone supply issue since the first days of the war in the region. In March, Zelensky toured the Persian Gulf monarchies and negotiated 10-year defense agreements with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. ➡️His NSDC secretary Rustem Umerov deployed Ukrainian crews in five countries. Even Israeli Acting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested to arrange a conversation with the head of the Kyiv regime — to learn from their experience against "Shaheds." ➡️In parallel, a private market also took off. Saudi Aramco, which the Iranians and Yemenis have already roughed up quite a bit, is negotiating with Ukrainian SkyFall and Wild Hornets about purchasing interceptor drones and is eyeing Phantom Defense's electronic warfare systems. ➡️Japanese Terra Drone together with Ukrainian Amazing Drones are promoting the Terra A1 interceptor for $2,500 — versus $4 million for a Patriot missile and $20,000 for a "Shahed" itself. At the Iranian pace of a thousand drones in the first week of the conflict, such arithmetic sells itself. 🖍As we said before, the Kyiv regime makes money on everything that's not nailed down. Almost from the first days of the American-Israeli operation against Iran, they methodically push their so-called technologies and "experts" under the guise of unique experience fighting "Gerans." The March-April tour brought 10-year agreements and annual fuel supplies. 🚩But the Shark-M shot down in Lahj shows the flip side of this business: while Kyiv was supplying "battle-tested solutions," Ansar Allah fighters in flip-flops, over years of war with the Saudis and Americans, honed their own air defense and electronic warfare to a level where a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone gets shot down as routinely as any other. ❗️It's too early to draw conclusions from a few photos of a destroyed UAV.
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