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ARTESH said:
According to some "pro russian" comments on Iranian social medias, each shahed drone costs about 10k USD...

Questions are:

1- Approximately how many of these drones are downed? And how much it costed Russians?

2- How much Ukraine had paid for downing them? (Price of missiles used to shoot them down)

3- do you think that Iran's government would sell rockets / missiles to Russians? What would be the outcome?
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I can answer question 3. Iran's government has been selling missiles and other weapons to the Russians. I doubt if there is much left in the way of sanctions that could be applied against Iran. I think there is a continuing effort to strengthen/ renew/ restart/ reanimate/...nuclear power negotiations with Iran so I don't think the West will want to come down too heavily on Iran.
As to question 1, I hope Russia is paying too much.
It seems to me, after doing no research at all, most of the Shahed drones are downed with million dollar missiles.
 
www.newsweek.com

Russian army hit by cholera outbreak after Kakhovka dam flooding

Several Russian troops have died while entire units have lost their combat capability, a military partisan movement has said.
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Russian MOD already found why this is happening :rolleyes:


View: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1670722024044392448

"The high technical readiness of the US to use infected vectors is evidenced by a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to disperse infected mosquitoes in the air. In accordance with the description, the drone must deliver a container with insects to a given area and release them. When bitten, mosquitoes can infect military personnel with a dangerous infection, such as malaria," Lieutenant General Ihor Kyrylov said.
 
Admiral Beez said:
Me too, that's what they were designed for. Ammo is likely scarce unfortunately.

Given how the AFU with MANPADS cleared the sky of helos in 2022 I am surprised at how supposedly effective Russia's attack helos are now.
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Its a guess but I suspect they have changed their tactics. How many times have we seen video's of Helicopters attacking as if they were IL2 or P47 in WW2, diving into the teeth of the enemy and paying the price.
Also, how many times have we wondered why don't they use them like western forces use them. In other words, stay as far away as possible from the target. Use nap of the earth flying, popping up to take the shot and go back under cover as quickly as possible.

A helicopter flying in this way, firing from 3-5,000 meters away is almost impossible to see and engage before they fire at you. There is a reason why most Western attack helicopters have the sensor as high as they can, it's to keep as much of the helicopter behind cover. You will notice that most Russian attack helicopters have the sensors below the crew.
 
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