Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have become ubiquitous in modern armed conflict, and the integration of commercially available components enables analysts to identify opportunities to disrupt critical adversary supply chains.
Russian forces have been fielding a variety of UASs in Ukraine, including a domestically produced variant of an Iranian-designed loitering munition. Analysis of UAS wreckage in Ukraine and Yemen, where the Houthis also use Iranian-origin UASs, reveals that these weapons rely on commercially available components, including from Western manufacturers. As a result, some procurement of these components is observable in publicly available information, which presents opportunities for governments to identify and disrupt the supply networks that enable adversaries to manufacture these systems at scale.
Download the report to learn how analysts can use publicly available corporate and trade data to map and identify means of disrupting adversary supply chains of UAS components. The featured case studies use insights derived from Sayari Graph to demonstrate this methodology.
