Russian invaders have launched an extensive network of launching platforms to launch shock drones-Kamikadze Shahaned type, which poses a constant threat to Ukrainian infrastructure. This was stated by a military expert of the Defense Express analytical center Ivan Kirichevsky on the air of Espresso.
According to him, at least 13 platforms are currently accrued, from which the occupiers are launched by "Shahda", and this may not be a complete list. Some of them are equipped in the form of recessed, fortified bases that the Russians specifically dig to store drones and place personnel.
“ It was publicly known that in one of the shots of Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG they kissed this fortified warehouse. The Russians do not spare efforts to build a shot of“ Shahaneda ” ,” Kirichevsky said.
The expert emphasized that powerful strokes on the starting grounds require large resources, so the most strategically important is now the creation of a stock of long -range weapons - both own production and received from partners.
" There are Germany initiatives to assist in the production of long -range missiles, but this is not a quick process. That is why it is necessary to increase the missile potential now to be able to beat not the consequences, but for the reasons - in particular in places where the production or assembly of drones occurs ," Kirichev said.
Separately, the expert mentioned the production center in the city of Elabuga (Tatarstan), where, according to intelligence, a collection of "Shahmed" from components components from China and other countries was established. Kirichevsky compared this object with a "giant assembly workshop", which has features of a concentration camp in the style of Nazi Germany or Chinese camps for Uighurs.
" It is a very large object where hundreds work, if not thousands of people. They are supplied spare parts, and they are glued, stitched and passed on. It is this knot that must be methodically destroyed - it is the logic of war ," he emphasized.
Despite the complexity of such an operation, Kirichevsky believes that blows to the production base in Elabuz can give strategically more than attempts to destroy all launchers at the same time.
The war of drones has long ceased to be only tactical weapons. It is part of a large industrial mechanism. And as long as Russia is able to store, collect and launch chess on an industrial scale - the threat to Ukraine will not disappear. Elabuga, as a knot of this process, has every chance of becoming a target # 1 for Ukrainian long -range missiles.
