Ukraine’s New Anti-Drone Arsenal

Ukraine is shifting to mass-produced interceptor drones to counter Russia’s swarming Shahed and Gerbera drones, filling the gap between costly missile systems and outdated anti-aircraft guns.

“The Sting”

A bullet-shaped, $2,100 “drone killer” by Wild Hornets, capable of speeds over 315 km/h. Claimed to have downed 600 Russian drones so far, with ~70% effectiveness.

Other interceptors by TAF Industries, Tytan Technologies (Germany), and Falcons — semi- or fully-autonomous systems guided by radar and AI.

Ukraine aims to deploy 1,000 interceptor drones daily, using three per Russian target for saturation defense. Production coordinated by Brave1, the state tech platform.

A single AIM-9X missile for NASAMS costs $1 million+, while a Sting costs less than $2,500—a 400× cheaper countermeasure.

Source: FT

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Merkel:

I never saw Orbán as Putin’s Trojan horse in the EU.

That’s absurd, nonsense.

Russia's Medvedev:

European cities have been engulfed by an epidemic of UFDs, or Unidentified Flying Drones.

UAVs are everywhere: near military bases, airports, fields, and cities. Whose they are remains unclear.

The main thing is for short-sighted Europeans to feel the danger of war, to tremble and shake like dumb animals driven to slaughter, to soil themselves with fear of their coming end.

Maybe then they will understand war and tear the heads off freaks like Merz and Macron, who profit from blood.

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