Chinese and russian companies are developing an attack drone similar to an Iranian model deployed in Ukraine - Bloomberg

The companies held talks in 2023 about collaborating to replicate Iran’s Shahed drone, and started developing and testing a version this year in preparation for shipment to Russia, said the officials. The Chinese drones have not been used in Ukraine so far, they said.

Chinese defense websites and several media outlets have reported China is developing a kamikaze attack drone called the Sunflower 200, which is described as similar in appearance to the Iranian Shahed 136 drone.

Sunflower 200 was publicly presented at the russian Army-2023 exhibition last year. It is indeed a copy of the Shahed, but exclusively Chinese. At the exhibition, a representative of an unnamed Chinese manufacturer said at the time that russia could get the development, but this has not happened, at least as of today.

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