According to leaked documents, Russia is making steady progress in establishing a facility to manufacture its own variant of Iranian-designed Shahed-136 one-way attack drones, which it calls the Geran-2. Russia plans for the factory, located in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, to produce 6,000 drones by the summer of 2025, although indepdendent experts suspect the project may be slightly behind schedule. The factory has relied on students at Alabuga Polytechnic University for labor. Alabuga specialists have begun sourcing some of the drone's components and materials directly, receiving a sample of airframe material from the Chinese company Metastar. The specialists also sought a meeting with Mado, the Iranian company that currently produces the engines.