{"id":615442,"date":"2026-09-14T04:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615442\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T04:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:34:36","slug":"new-russia-developed-drones-requested-by-tehran-during-war-with-israel-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615442\/","title":{"rendered":"New Russia-developed drones requested by Tehran during war with Israel, US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran<\/a> requested that Russia provide the regime with its new generation of Geran drones earlier this year during the Israeli-US war with Iran, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The report cited Western security officials and a source close to the Kremlin, who said that Iran made the request following substantial improvements to Russia’s Geran family of drones.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the jet-powered Geran-4 and Geran-5, which follow their propeller-powered predecessors, have recently entered the Ukraine-Russia war<\/a> and pose a much greater threat than earlier generations because they can evade defenses more easily.<\/p>\n

Russia based the original Geran on Iranian-designed Shahed drones, which Moscow began producing in 2023.<\/p>\n

The first-generation Geran carries a 20-kilogram warhead and has a top speed of 185 kph, while the new Geran-5 carries a 90-kilogram warhead at a top speed of 600 kph.<\/p>\n

According to the Financial Times, it looks more like a cruise missile than a traditional Shahed drone. In contrast, the Geran-4 is less revolutionary but is more aerodynamic than its predecessor. Both have longer ranges than previous generations.<\/p>\n

Both models also include thermal vision, AI-powered targeting<\/a>, Russian anti-jamming antennas, and Chinese mesh radio network modems, while older designs relied on rudimentary guidance systems, the report added.<\/p>\n

The report also cited pro-Kremlin media as saying the Geran-5, in particular, can be deployed by Russian Sukhoi-25 fighter jets, aircraft Tehran purchased in 2025.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran requested that Russia provide the regime with its new generation of Geran drones earlier this year during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16606,85,87,46,47,14821,43,1593,166648,3336,1594,74283,1032],"class_list":["post-615442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-drone","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-moscow","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-shahed-drone","tag-tehran","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-russia-war","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}