Vlad Litnarovych

A Russian company tied to sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska secretly bought American-made jet engines to study and replicate them for Moscow’s next generation of Shahed-style attack drones—revealing a clear link between US technology and Russia’s evolving drone warfare program.

Russian defense planners have quietly ordered two divisions of a new 300-mm mobile precision rocket system dubbed “Sarma,” reviving earlier work on the shelved “Kama” project, procurement documents reviewed by Ukrainain defense media outlet Militarnyi show.