Last month, a @conflictarm field investigation team documented the contents of three Russian Lancet loitering munitions recovered by Ukrainian forces in early 2023. Several of the chips we documented then were interesting, but one stood out 1/9 We have been documenting and tracing chips found in Russian and Iranian weapons for almost a year now, and found that most had been made between 2014 and 2021, suggesting efforts to stockpile foreign technology to build resilience against sanctions. 2/9 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/239f75…

In early November 2022, a @conflictarm team had access to 1x Shahed-131, 2x Shahed-136, and 1x Mohajer-6 UAVs used by Russia in Ukraine. Here’s what we found in them: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7a3941…

https://twitter.com/conflictarm/status/1595135506194792448

Through visual comparison with four other UAV models documented in 2017-2022 in the Middle East, @conflictarm confirms that the Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 UAVs used by Russia in Ukraine were made in Iran.

In July 2022, @conflictarm returned to #Ukraine to continue to document components of Russian weapons. There, we made an interesting discovery. Follow along... 1/19 We documented parts of the SN-99 satellite navigation systems of three different Russian cruise missiles: the 3M14, the Kh-59, and the Kh-101 2/19

A @conflictarm team just returned from #Ukraine, where we saw some pretty recently introduced systems. Here's a short thread showing a couple of them 🧵 1/ We saw a Merlin-VR (Мерлин-ВР) UAV, which seems to have been first reported on in late September 2021 web.archive.org/web/2021092822… 2/