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Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Thursday that it has been supplying its troops with roughly 950 interceptor drones every day since the beginning of December.In its statement, the ministry said these drones were specifically to “counter enemy Shahed-type UAVs.”Reaching nearly 1,000 daily delivered interceptors is a significant milestone for the…
A Ukrainian defense manufacturer said Monday that its interceptor took down a Russian drone armed with an air-to-air missile, an unusual configuration signaling a new battlefield tactic.Wild Hornets, a defense-tech firm making drones for the Ukrainian military, said that the Darknode battalion of Kyiv’s 412th Nemesis Brigade used its “Sting”…
Russia’s new high-speed attack drones are increasingly appearing on the battlefield, but Ukrainians said they’ve already destroyed some with cheap interceptors.Serhii Sternenko, the leader of a volunteer organization specializing in donating drones to Ukrainian units, said on Sunday that the Sting — a locally built interceptor drone — successfully destroyed…
Ukraine finally looks like it’s about to build the interceptor drone arsenal it needs, shifting the world closer to a new type of air defense battle in which waves of drones fight each other.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that his country should reach a daily production of 600…
