The companies behind Ukraine's top popular interceptor drones are making their products faster to keep pace with Russia's new jet-powered Shaheds.
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Jake Epstein
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Ukrainian arms makers are building faster interceptor drones.
Wild Hornets, which is behind the popular Sting interceptor drone, scaled back the speed in favor of loitering time.
Motherships are helping Ukraine send small drones farther into battle and strike from less predictable directions.
Ukraine's defense leadership has said that it is already working on a way to counter Russian jet-powered drones.
The modified Shaheds comes as Ukrainian interceptor drones are logging a growing number of drone kills.
Russia and Ukraine are still in the "first stages of combat testing" drone AI that can decide to attack a target on its own, said…
Pilots operating some of the most popular Ukrainian interceptor drones can now work from hundreds of miles away instead of dozens.
