Russia sent 1,500 drones at Ukraine in 4 days, and 800 were jet-powered
If the sky over Ukraine felt unusually chaotic this week, the sheer scale of the latest aerial swarm explains why.
Zelenskyy laid out the numbers behind the latest barrage: nearly fifteen hundred drones launched within just four days. More than half of them were high-speed, jet-powered Shahed models designed to sprint past mobile air defense units.
Hunting these fast jet drones currently forces the military to rely heavily on crewed fighter jets, sparking an urgent push to mass-produce domestic drone interceptors. Four local companies have already built working counter-drone prototypes, with one design standing out as ready for immediate scale.
Burning through precious fighter jet flight hours to chase disposable flying mopeds with jet engines makes cheap autonomous interceptors the only sustainable endgame.
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