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  • Russia’s new decoy drone is all Chinese parts—and still carries a bomb
    A new Russian drone built to deceive Ukrainian air defenses has been exposed by Ukraine’s intelligence as being made entirely from Chinese components. Militarnyi reports that the aircraft, though intended primarily as a decoy, is capable of carrying a 15-kg warhead. The drone’s fuselage is shaped like a delta wing, resembling the Iranian-designed Shahed-136, but it is significantly smaller in size. Russia uses the Shaheds, carrying up to 90 kg of explosives each, in daily attacks against Ukraini
     
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Russia’s new decoy drone is all Chinese parts—and still carries a bomb

Par :Yuri Zoria
22 juillet 2025 à 16:44

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A new Russian drone built to deceive Ukrainian air defenses has been exposed by Ukraine’s intelligence as being made entirely from Chinese components. Militarnyi reports that the aircraft, though intended primarily as a decoy, is capable of carrying a 15-kg warhead.

The drone’s fuselage is shaped like a delta wing, resembling the Iranian-designed Shahed-136, but it is significantly smaller in size. Russia uses the Shaheds, carrying up to 90 kg of explosives each, in daily attacks against Ukrainian civilians. In order to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses, the Russians launch multiple cheaper decoy drones. 

Drone mimics Shahed shape but is smaller and Chinese-made

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate has published a detailed breakdown of the drone’s construction. Although its main function is to act as a false target alongside long-range drones, it can also carry a warhead weighing up to 15 kg.

The complete list of components has been published on the War&Sanctions portal. The Website identify the drone as TsBST.611000.

All onboard systems and electronic blocks are of Chinese origin. Nearly half of them — including the flight controller with autopilot, navigation modules and antennas, airspeed sensor, and Pitot tube — come from a single Chinese company, CUAV Technology. The company specializes in developing and producing UAV system modules and applications.

Banned CUAV tech still shows up in new Russian UAV

Besides CUAV components, the TsBST decoy drone contains the following Chinese-made parts: DLE-60 engine and ignition module, KST servos, a Razer video camera by Foxeer Technology, Mayatech RFD900X data transmission module, ReadyToSky video transmitter, Hobbywing Technology power regulator, and an HRB Power battery.

The UAV is also equipped with a Chinese-made copy of the Australian RFD900x data transmission module by RFDesign. Like the original, this device is designed to transmit data over long distances — up to 40 km in line of sight depending on the antenna. It enables data links from the drone to a ground station or from one UAV to another, expanding reconnaissance capabilities.

In October 2022, CUAV Technology announced restrictions on supplying its products to both Ukraine and Russia to prevent their use in military applications. However, in 2023, Russia presented a vertical takeoff drone as an original development, which turned out to be a CUAV product available on Aliexpress.

Militarnyi notes that DLE engines were previously used by Russian developers in the Gerbera and Parodiia decoy drones. KST servos have appeared in the Shahed-136 drones, V2U, aerial bomb glide kits.
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