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.
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Combat shows speed alone can’t catch Russia’s jet-powered drones, despite eight Ukrainian makers’ assurances. So why can’t they stop them?
Eight makers said their interceptors were ready last winter. They weren't.
Ukraine spent three years learning to catch Russian drones—so Russia made them fly faster
Russia's jet-powered drones don't beat Ukraine's missile defense. They threaten the cheap layer that keeps it affordable—and they are turning the war into a contest over reaction time.
A jet-powered BM-35 can now hit 350 km/h. Russia says that’s specifically to outrun Ukraine’s interceptors
Russia has begun fitting jet engines to another attack drone, the BM-35, to outrun Ukraine's interceptors, following the same shift it made with Shaheds, adviser Serhii Beskrestnov says.
Russia tows its own ships between bays to keep them from being finished off, Ukraine’s navy says
Russia is shifting to jet-powered drones in its air attacks.
Russia turns to 500-km/h Geran-4 jet drones to outrun Kyiv’s cheap interceptors
Defense adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said the kill rate has climbed fivefold since winter, undermining the economics of propeller-driven attack craft.
Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 just met Ukraine’s STING interceptor: Who won?
What makes this significant: the Geran-4 is not a standard propeller drone. It uses a turbojet engine.