secret factory ramps up drone production to fuel offensive – photo – news 1+1

In the first nine months of 2024, the Alabuz plant produced 5,760 drones.

The plant in the special economic zone “Alabuga” in the south of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation significantly increased the production of Iranian-developed strike and reconnaissance drones of the type Shahed-136.

This is reported by CNN.

As noted, in 2023, the plant produced 2,738 Shaheds, and in the first nine months of 2024, it more than doubled this number, producing 5,760 drones.

Serial production of cheaper decoy drones was also launched in Alabuz.

CNN writes that to speed up production rates, Russia uses a number of Chinese components and low-skilled labor – Russian teenagers and African women.

The sources, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns, said the plant also produces thousands of Gerber decoy drones,…