A hobby computer, a cheap airframe, and a Russian jet drone: how Zirka’s upgrade scored its kill
The interceptor’s vision software detects the target, tracks it, and guides the drone home, leaving its crew mostly to manage the closing speed.
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A warehouse by day, homes by night: Russian jet drones keep hitting Kharkiv
Five people were hurt, a 4-year-old among them, and the next day a Russian drone hit the same district again, killing one person and injuring two.
Germany’s Helsing promises jet-drone-hunting missiles at under $100,000 a shot—its CEO doesn’t expect them on the market before 2027
One contract is signed. Ukraine’s own jet-drone interceptors, meanwhile, aren’t due in needed numbers before late November.
Russia replaces its missiles as fast as it fires them, Ukrainian intelligence says. Its drone order this year tops 100,000
HUR calls the order a systematic bet on exhausting Ukraine’s air defense.
Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s jet Shaheds: a jet drone named Bars, built to strike Russia and now turned around to hunt them
Zelenskyy says it has the best hit rate of any Ukrainian interceptor against the jet drones, about 30%, but the small jet engines it needs may be in short supply.
Planned capacity of 12,000 interceptors a year, under 100 seconds to target: US firm pitches a low-cost drone killer
The fastest model cruises at 540 km/h, which may be enough to catch Russia’s jet Gerans, a defense news outlet suggests..
Ukrainian OSINT channel: Russia turned a bare field into a Geran-5 launch site in a month—and drones are already arriving
Eight launcher spots, 32 drone-prep pads, and a layout the channel likens to Tsymbulova, a Russian drone base Ukraine keeps striking.
Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US
Russia turned Iran's imported Shahed into a jet that flies at up to 600 km/h, with a new airframe closer to a cruise missile than to the propeller drone Tehran sent it.