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..
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Russia is building jet drones that fly 800 kilometers per hour, and Ukraine says it is already working on how to stop next generation
Russia’s jet-powered Gerans fly several times faster than the propeller Shaheds and remain the main challenge for air defense.
Norwegian nonprofit commits $1 million for interceptor drones to protect Ukraine’s Black Sea ports from Russian drones
The funding will equip Ukrainian border guards and military units with interceptor drones and support equipment to protect port infrastructure vital to Ukraine’s agricultural exports.
Ukraine squeezes more defense out of Soviet-era stock, pairing Kub launcher and American RIM-7 interceptors to catch Russia’s jet-powered drones
The hybrid has already downed about 20 air targets.
Russia’s jet drones fly near 600 km/h now. Ukraine is building simulators for the 900 km/h ones it expects next
When a Russian jet drone and the drone chasing it move at the same speed, the pilot can barely tell the two apart—and the Russian models keep getting faster.
From making interceptors to guarding sky: Ukrainian drone maker gets its own private air defense unit and will pay for it from weapon sales
The company says its Night Hornets unit has downed more than 50 Shaheds.
“Mr Putin, put an end to this senseless war”: Merz in Kyiv, with €1 billion in military aid
The chancellor said Germany is ready for talks, but Russia's attacks on Ukrainian civilians must stop.
Ukraine is downing Russia’s fastest drones—just not often enough, and scaling up comes down to money
Russia's jet drones outrun the cheap interceptors Ukraine built for slower Shaheds, pushing Kyiv to field new hardware that works in combat but can't yet be made in the numbers its skies demand.
Ukraine just caught a Geran-5 at 425 km/h—the jet drone that has often outrun Ukrainian interceptor drones since January
Ukrainian crews now stop just over half of Russia's jet-powered drones, against more than 90% of the older Shaheds, even as Moscow builds them by the thousand.
Russia’s mass drone attacks on Ukraine have a goal—likely Ukraine’s capitulation by spring 2027, ISW says
Until his new theory of victory has played out, Putin is unlikely to soften his demands or enter serious ceasefire talks, according to ISW.
Ukraine’s jet-drone kill rate just hit 55%. Russia’s answer: $12 billion to make more of them
Russian internal documents show Moscow's planned spending on jet drones and loitering munitions for 2027, Zelenskyy said in his evening address.
The EU just released $7 billion for Ukraine to buy Patriot missiles and drones
The money comes from Europe's existing loan to Kyiv, and the decision finally lets Ukraine place orders for the American interceptors it cannot build itself.
“Credit to the Russians, they know how to scale,” Ukrainian military spokesperson says. Ukraine’s jet-drone interceptors show early promise, but harder job ahead
Scaling them up to match Ukraine's success against slower drones is the real test.
Money, not engineering, is what stands between Ukraine and Russia’s fastest drones, Zelenskyy says
Dozens of firms are chasing the problem, but nobody has funded production at the scale the nightly waves demand.
20% to 70%: Ukraine’s National Guard rewired its drone war around cables
Fiber-optic drones trail a cable with no signal to jam—and now account for 70% of the drones the National Guard uses, up from about a fifth.
Ukraine has 67 companies working to shoot down Russia’s jet-powered drones en masse, Zelenskyy says. Only three to five have real results
He called the whole air-defense push "Plan B" to diplomacy's "Plan A".
Twenty Ukrainian firms are racing to catch Russia’s jet-powered Shaheds. This one’s interceptor is already flying combat missions
Firebolt Engineering joins Ukraine's jet-interceptor drone race.
Fired Ukrainian minister offers to help build America’s drone army— for Patriot missiles in return
Mykhailo Fedorov is courting US investors for a fund that would build defense tech companies itself, not just back them.
Fix for Ukraine’s interceptors is radar seeker head, and American firm is selling one for $4,000, says president’s tech adviser
Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov says cloud and fog collapse interceptor hit rates, and a seeker head is the way out.
Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints
Leaked documents describe a swept-wing drone built to hunt other drones at up to 300 km/h. Russian firm NIK allegedly cooperated with Boeing.