Ukraine’s GUR Publishes Full Teardowns of Russia’s Drones and Missiles, Names Every Foreign Part Inside

I spent the morning clicking through 3D models of Russian attack drones on a Ukrainian intelligence website. You can rotate them, zoom in on individual circuit boards, and read the manufacturer name stamped on each chip. The level of detail is unusual for a government database. It feels more like an interactive exhibit built to make compliance officers uncomfortable.

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) runs a public portal called War & Sanctions that names every foreign-made component found inside captured Russian weapons, identifies the manufacturer, and lists the country of origin. As of March 2, 2026, the portal tracks 5,534 components across 190 weapon units, according to the counter displayed on the portal’s components page. The Izdeliye-30 cruise missile was added just today. The data is open-source. Anyone can search it.

The database: 5,534 foreign components catalogued across 190 Russian weapon units, from cruise missiles to FPV drones, with manufacturer names, countries of origin, and links to procurement networks.

The problem it exposes: Half the components in Russia’s jet-powered Geran-3 attack drone come from American manufacturers. German transistors show up in every Geran variant. An Nvidia Jetson Orin AI computer was pulled from an upgraded Shahed. None of these parts were supposed to reach Russia.

The source: War & Sanctions weapons database, maintained by GUR.

The portal profiles drones, cruise missiles, and glide bombs with full component lists

The War & Sanctions weapons section profiles Russian weapons systems with interactive 3D models and complete foreign component teardowns. Each entry includes manufacturer names, country of origin, and links to shell companies involved in procurement. Current entries include the Geran-3 UAV, Geran-5 UAV, two armed variants of the Geran-2 (one carrying a Verba MANPADS, the other an R-60 air-to-air missile), the AI-equipped Shahed-136 MS001, the Molniya-2R FPV drone, the ORION UAV system, the Izdelie-30 cruise missile, the FAB-500T with UMPK-PD glide kit, the 9M727 Iskander-K cruise missile, the Shahed-107, and additional systems shown in the portal’s 3D gallery including the Kh-101 cruise missile, BM-35 UAV, and S8000 Banderol missile.

The portal keeps growing. Its news page still carries the message: “The sections will soon open, and even more of those who are guilty of supporting this criminal war will be held accountable.”

The Geran-3 teardown reveals 45 foreign parts from six countries

The Geran-3 page is one of the most detailed entries on the portal. GUR published the full teardown in September 2025 after recovering a largely intact U-series airframe, as reported by Euromaidan Press. The Geran-3 is Russia’s localized version of the Iranian Shahed-238 jet attack drone. It uses a Chinese-made Telefly JT80 turbojet engine, flies at 300 to 370 km/h, and has an estimated operational range of up to 1,000 km.

GUR identified 45 foreign-made components inside the airframe. Roughly half came from American manufacturers, eight from Chinese companies, seven from Swiss firms, three from German producers, two from British suppliers, and one from Japan. The portal lists each component individually: a SADRA inertial navigation system, an AIRDATA COMPUTER air pressure unit, a Wilkinson Splitter operating in the 800-2700MHz band, a fuel pump, and a digital servo drive made by Dongguan Gongxun Power Technology (GXSERVO).

The component Ukrainian analysts flag as most significant is the jammer-resistant Kometa satellite navigation system, manufactured by Russia’s VNIIR-PROGRESS JSC. The Kometa uses a 12-element adaptive antenna array (CRPA) that makes the drone resistant to electronic warfare jamming. Earlier Geran-2 models could be knocked off course by Ukrainian EW systems. The Geran-3, with this upgraded navigation, largely cannot.

The Geran-5 adds a Chinese mesh modem and a Raspberry Pi tracker

The Geran-5 page, published January 19, 2026, documents Russia’s newest long-range attack drone. First deployed on January 11, 2026, the Geran-5 ditches the familiar delta wing shape entirely. It uses a traditional fixed-wing airframe with a tubular fuselage, a 5.5-meter wingspan, and a profile that Ukrainian Air Force officials have compared to a cruise missile, as The War Zone reported.

The portal lists its key components: a Telefly TF-TJ2000A turbojet engine (Chinese), a Kometa-M12 jammer-resistant satellite navigation system, a “Borscht” Tracker V3 built around a Raspberry Pi microcomputer with 3G/LTE modems, a MINSOO V3 inertial navigation system, a BCh-90 warhead weighing 90 kg, and an XK-F358 mesh network modem made by Chinese firm Xingkay Tech.

That mesh modem matters. Earlier Geran drones flew autonomous GPS routes with no real-time control. The mesh networking capability documented on this page enables what Ukrainian specialists call “chain control,” where multiple drones in a salvo maintain communication links with each other and with ground operators deep into Ukrainian airspace.

An American AI chip turned a Shahed into an autonomous hunter

The Shahed-136 (Geran-2) MS001 page documents what may be the most alarming find on the entire portal. This drone was shot down over the Sumy region in June 2025. GUR’s analysis, published on the GUR website, confirmed Iranian manufacture but found modifications suggesting joint Russian-Iranian engineering.

Inside the wreckage: an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit, listed on the portal with its manufacturer as Nvidia, headquartered in the United States. The Jetson Orin is a palm-sized AI computer capable of 67 trillion operations per second. It retails for $249 to $499 depending on the version. It processes real-time video from the drone’s onboard infrared camera, enabling autonomous target recognition without GPS coordinates. Ukrainian Major General Vladyslav Klochkov described the MS001 as “a digital predator” that “doesn’t carry coordinates, it thinks,” in a LinkedIn post covered by Tom’s Hardware.

The portal also lists the drone’s MADO MD550 engine, a Shenzhen ForwardVideo EZCAP USB3.0 video capture unit (Chinese), VHF data link subsystems, and the upgraded 8-channel Nasir satellite navigation system. An Nvidia spokesperson told Tom’s Hardware that its Jetson Orin modules are “consumer-grade products sold to students, developers, and startups.” Intelligence assessments cited by Interesting Engineering and others estimate more than $17 million worth of Nvidia components reached Russia through gray-market channels in 2023.

The portal goes beyond weapons into sanctions enforcement and war crimes documentation

The weapons database is one section of a larger operation. War & Sanctions also maintains a registry of individuals involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children, a stolen cultural heritage tracker, a catalog of 1,454 pieces of foreign manufacturing equipment found in 181 Russian weapons factories, and a database of 79 Russian enterprises involved in drone production. GUR’s stated goal is to give governments and manufacturers the specific data they need to ban re-exports, tighten screening, and identify when their products are being diverted through shell companies.

DroneXL’s Take

I have been tracking the Geran drone family for over a year, from the first propeller-driven Geran-2 strikes through the jet-powered Geran-3, the AI-equipped MS001, and now the cruise-missile-shaped Geran-5. What GUR has built with War & Sanctions is the most complete open-source forensic database of an adversary’s weapons supply chain that I’ve seen any government publish.

The timing here is hard to ignore. The same Shahed-136 design documented on this portal is now hitting buildings in Dubai and Bahrain and striking the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The Iranian drone threat stopped being a Ukraine-only problem this weekend.

Reading through the component lists, the ordinariness of the parts is the point. We reported today that every Geran drone carries 8 to 12 German-made Infineon transistors you can buy on eBay for $29.90. The Nvidia Jetson Orin that powers the MS001’s autonomous targeting is a developer kit sold to university students. The Telefly turbojet engines powering both the Geran-3 and Geran-5 come from a Chinese telecommunications equipment company. Sanctions were supposed to stop this flow. They haven’t.

Russia is producing 404 Shahed-type drones daily, according to Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi, and plans to reach 1,000 per day. Iran gave Russia the production blueprint, and both countries are iterating on the design faster than Western export controls can adapt. The War & Sanctions portal is GUR’s public evidence exhibit, and it just keeps getting bigger.

I expect this database to become a primary reference for Western compliance teams and sanctions enforcement agencies within six months. The data is too specific to dismiss. If you’re a manufacturer whose products show up on this portal, your legal exposure just changed.

Editorial Note: AI tools were used to assist with research and archive retrieval for this article. All reporting, analysis, and editorial perspectives are by Haye Kesteloo.