Russo-Ukrainian Warlasting more than a year,Ukrainereceived support from Western countries,Russiathen withIranCooperation with other countries.U.S.CNN reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Russia has been sending U.S. and NATO weapons and equipment acquired on the Ukrainian battlefield to Iran. The U.S. believes Iran is trying to imitate these weapons systems.
According to CNN reports, the United States, NATO and Western officials have seen cases in which the Russian army has captured and received small military aid equipment from the Ukrainian army in the past year, including the “Javelin” (Javelin) anti-tankmissileIt and the Stinger (Stinger) anti-aircraft missile are all missile systems that can be carried by individual soldiers. According to people familiar with the situation, Ukrainian soldiers sometimes left such weapons on the battlefield due to the situation, but they were seized by the Russian army and then sent to Iran for disassembly and analysis.
According to sources, Russia believes that by continuing to provide Iran with seized Western weapons, it can continue to gain Iran’s support and assist Russia in continuing to wage wars. At the same time, the Iranian military can also imitate Western weapons.
U.S. officials do not believe the problem is widespread or systematic, and the Ukrainian military has been reporting losses of U.S.-supplied equipment to the U.S. Department of Defense since the war began, but U.S. officials have acknowledged the difficulty of tracking the weapons.
The report pointed out that it is still unclear whether Iran has successfully copied these US weapons, but Iran has been very good at copying US-made weapons and equipment in the past.
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East program at the Center for a New American Security think tank, pointed out that Iran has demonstrated in the past the ability to “reverse engineer” American weapons by reverse engineering towed missiles to create a A near-perfect replica, the Typhoon missile, has now spread to Hezbollah and the Huthi rebel group in Yemen.
In addition, Iran also intercepted the U.S.-made RQ-170 “Sentinel” unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in 2011, and then imitated it as a “copycat aircraft.”
Lord said that if Iran imitates the “Javelin” and “Needle”, it may affect the aviation security in the Middle East; if it falls into the hands of Iranian proxies, it will also pose a threat to Israel’s military power.