No. Iranian Shaheds drones were assembled with honeycomb airframes.
Poliestirene airframes came from China. Here is the proof.
How is this proof? You point to a workshop in China making clones of S-136 body and automatically assume that the buyer is Iran?
What kind of logic is that?
Have you even been to China before? Their industrial base make clones of everything.
Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising 'cruise missiles' and 'suicide attack drones.'
www.yahoo.com
There was a flurry of Chinese manufactures that wanted to get in on the frenzy of S-136 after its use in Ukraine war. You could buy them even at one point on Chinese retailers like AliExpress.
But these are all civilian applications as China does not military grade to be exported without proper licensing. So these workshops get around it by advertising as civilian hobby drones.
Iran isn’t ordering S-136 body kits from Chinese workshops. It’s laughable to say they are.
Yes. Mado 550 engine was european origin, and reverse engineered in Irán and also in China.
Iran has been using Mado 550 in drones far longer than Chinese workshops decided to adopt. China until recently didn’t even have S-136 like drone in its own military arsenal. All of that changed after the Ukraine war. Now many countries are copying the design or offering knock offs to cash in on the popularity.
So what is the point of supporting Islamic Republic if China doesn't need Irán at all?.
Because it’s a useful foreign policy lever. There is a difference between China NEEDS Iran and iran is USEFUL for China.
But I assure you, Chinese government does not care if Iran survives or not. China and Iran do not have strategic relations and Chinese imports of Iranian oil make up less than 10% of China’s daily oil consumption. And in fact China produces more oil than it imports from Iran.
Not only It is a natural dam against americans, they can test technologies and strategies, specially in communications and signal inteligence.
They didnt even supply arms to Russia when it was losing the Ukraine war and going backwards. Why would they be testing Chinese weaponry in Iran?
The first thing that a westernalized absolutist monarchy will do is just withdraw Silk and Road initiative, and second one It is convert Mashhad Air Base and also Mehrabad in US Forwards Air Base.
No they wouldn’t. Every country in Middle East including Afghanistan has strong relations with China. So do many Arab countries who are U.S. vassal states. You overestimate how much Chinese-Iranian relations would change if Iran falls.
And U.S. has military bases in South Korea and Japan, why would China even care if there was an airbase all the way over in Iran? U.S. had airbases in Afghanistan for years.
Guess what will say Xi Jingping or his successor when they have G550 collecting signals, inteligence and supporting Iughur militants...
No, you're wrong man. Just my oppinion.
Xi Jinping wouldn’t care since he is an appeaser to Western order. And US already has allies all around China that he could use for those same tasks and who actually are geographically closer and share a border or region of water.
Sorry to say, but Iran for many years has become indispensable to China.
