Shahed-136 / Geran-2

Designed and built in Iran by Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center (SAIRC), a unit subordinate to the IRGC Aerospace Force that the US Treasury designated in November 2022. Iranian firms also made key parts such as the engine and electronic modules.

المكوّنات: Engines by One Parvaz Mado Nafar (Mado) and electronic parts by Sarmad Electronic Sepahan (CAR dispatches, 2023); engine is a copy of a German Limbach design (RUSI, via CSIS); Western-brand commercial electronics found in recovered examples (RUSI, ISIS).

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Financial Times reporting from March 2026, relayed by IranWatch and Euromaidan Press, said Russia was close to shipping Geran-2-type drones to Iran; type, quantity and delivery are not confirmed. A Kremlin spokesman called some of these reports fakes. Shown as a reported plan, not as a realised import; the route is left as not documented.

المكوّنات: unknown (not documented in the sources found)

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Russia first received Iranian-made Shahed-131/136 in 2022 (CSIS: first shipment mid-August 2022) and then localised production at the Alabuga SEZ in Tatarstan under a reported US$1.75 billion franchise-style deal, with a second line at the Kupol plant in Izhevsk. The deal terms rest on leaked documents and press reports, and Iran has denied the cooperation. Shown as localised production: the reported franchise deal rests on leaked documents and Iran denies it, so a licence is not established.

المكوّنات: Early production used Iranian kits and parts (Mado engine, Nasir receiver, Sadra navigation unit); later Chinese engines, CRPA antennas, LTE modems and mesh radios plus Russian Kometa navigation modules and warheads (CSIS, citing Ukrainian intelligence); CAR's 2023 teardown of two Geran-2 found 100+ parts from 22 companies in 7 countries, mostly Chinese, Swiss and US brands (as relayed by press).

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The US DIA (February 2024) assessed the Houthi 'Waid-2' as an Iranian-design drone consistent with the Shahed-136 and reported its use against Red Sea shipping from early 2024; how it reached Yemen is not documented in the sources found. Iran denies arming the Houthis, who claim local manufacture, while CAR (via The National, 2026) describes Iran-linked knock-down kits for local assembly in general terms. The route for this specific type is therefore left as not documented; import of Iranian systems or kits is a hypothesis from general reporting, not established for this type.

المكوّنات: unknown for this type (not documented in the sources found)

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No source was found that documents the Shahed-136 specifically in Iraqi militia hands; a 2025 Washington Institute analysis ties drone attacks on Kurdistan to Iranian-provided Shahed-101-type drones, and the militias deny involvement. CSIS's Shahed profile does not name Iraqi groups as users.

المكوّنات: unknown

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