Imitation drones used by russia, which recently fell in Moldova, contained parts from China, Taiwan, the US, and Switzerland, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate (MID) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.
MID reported that in October, russia deployed over 2,000 UAVs against Ukraine, with roughly half of them being decoys or fake targets intended to distract and overload Ukraine’s air defenses.
The "Parodiya" drone is one of the primary decoy UAVs used by the invaders in their aerial assaults. On November 10, two such drones crashed on Moldovan territory.
These UAVs lack any warhead and are significantly smaller and cheaper than Shahed-13 or Geran-2 drones but, thanks to a Lüneberg lens, can radar-mimic these more advanced models.
Investigations into russia's Parodiya drones revealed that even such basic "plywood" drones cannot be fully produced domestically. MID noted that the flight control module in these decoys includes components from manufacturers in China (Ebyte, Jiashan Jinchang Electron, Yangzhou Yangjie Electronic Technology), the United States (Texas Instruments, Cypress Semiconductor, InvenSense), Switzerland (STMicroelectronics), and Taiwan (SONi).
