Ukraine Approved 413 New Drone Types, and the Names Are Getting Wild
The Ukrainian military just cleared over four hundred new drone models for active duty, including fiber-optic quadcopters and something officially named Optoslon.
Military bureaucracy usually moves like cold honey, but Ukraine just authorized 413 new drone models for the front lines in a matter of months. Almost the entire lineup is domestic production, beating last year's tally by almost a third.
The catalog reads like an engineer let their intrusive thoughts win. Alongside standard reconnaissance planes and deep-strike wings, the bulk of the approvals went to fiber-optic drones and frontline bombers. The military officially registered tech bearing names like Hydra, Chumak, Kharyok, and Optoslon — literally meaning "fiber-optic elephant".
On top of that, thousands of AI-homing Octopus interceptors are being rolled out specifically to hunt down incoming Shahed drones mid-air.
Somewhere in a design bureau, an engineer wired a spool of glass thread to an explosive brick, christened it after a mammoth, and the state formally stamped it into military doctrine.
Source: mod.gov.ua
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