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“Finally, something no one else has,” a Russian journalist says during a TV documentary on the country’s largest drone factory . “Such mass production of two-stroke engines doesn’t exist anywhere else in Russia.”

The factory in question, Alabuga, 600 miles east of Moscow in Russia’s Tatarstan region, has been pumping out increasing numbers of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 attack drone (known in Russia as Geran), but the man behind the site believes this may be one of its greatest achievements.

“This is a complete facility,” CEO Timur Shagivaleev adds in the documentary, explaining most of the components for the drone are

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