When Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, granted Russia’s request for drone reinforcements to fight the war in Ukraine, noise complaints can’t have been high on his list of expected Ukrainian responses.pic.twitter.com/C5Ep0kj7GZ“The advantage comes from intelligence gathering about how this Mohajer interface can be used in conjunction with other Russian or Iranian equipment,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies research analyst Ryan Brobst told the Washington Examiner.“So you have to be able feed it coordinates — either preprogram it, in which case you can really only use it against a building or something like that," said John Hardie, deputy director of FDD’s Russia program.The question, to my mind, would be whether the passing along of the targets happens in real time.”U.S. forces likely have the ability to take down Iranian drones with existing electronic warfare capabilities, but President Joe Biden’s team would hesitate to place such advanced technology in Ukraine, where it might be at risk of Russian capture.The drones that attacked Odesa were sent on missions to target putative supply depots and the headquarters of Ukraine’s Southern Command — the military leaders responsible for the Ukrainian counteroffensive around Kherson."