Russia has released rare images inside a drone factory, the largest in the world she said, where these murderous combat vehicles used daily to attack Ukraine.
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The forty -minute video was published on Sunday by Zvezda, a television channel belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and shows workers with blurred or hidden faces behind surgical masks, assembling triangular drones.
These drones, named “Gueran-2”, are the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed-136, which Tehran provided in Moscow to lead his offensive.
“This is the largest production plant in the world of unmanned, and most secret combat vehicles,” Timour Chaguivaleïev, the factory director, himself under American sanctions.
The factory is installed in the city of Ielabouga in the Tatarstan, the central region of Russia, in what was initially planned as a special economic zone created to stimulate scientific and trade activities in the region.
Mr. Chaguivaleïev assures that it produces nine times more drones than initially planned to support the recent intensification of drone strikes carried out against Ukraine.
“Hundreds of machines, thousands of workers, and wherever you look at, there are young people. Boys and girls who work, but also study at university here, ”says La Voix Off.
In the factory, the portraits of the Soviet dictator Joseph Staline, of the nuclear physicist Igor Kourtchatov and that of the father of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev, toisent visitors and employees, accompanied by this message: “Kourtchatov, Korolev and Stalin live in your DNA!”
Although being more than a thousand kilometers from the border with Ukraine, this production center is a target for long -range Ukrainian attacks, which regularly reach industrial and military infrastructure located in depth in Russian territory.