RFE/RL dissects Russian Geran-4 drone in teardown video
What's the story? Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →(RFE/RL) published a four-minute teardown video on 24 September ʣ2026 in which its Ukrainian Service experts dismantle a Russian Geran-4 jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle recovered in Ukraine. The investigation walks through the drone's turbojet engine, its electro-optical camera and its foreign-made communications and navigation components, to explain why the Geran-4 is faster, harder to intercept and able to operate deeper inside Ukrainian airspace than earlier Shahed designs.
Why it matters: Geran-4 is the jet-powered evolution of the Shahed one-way attack-drone family now built for Russia. Design work traces to Iran's HESADealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Shahed Aviation IndustriesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Serial production has been ramping at the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, per Ukrainian intelligence reporting. Cataloguing the foreign-sourced electronics helps counter-drone programmes, export-control enforcement and efforts to map the supply chain behind Russia's long-range strike campaign against Ukraine.
The video: Rate the full four-minute segment on RFE/RL's YouTube channel.
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