The battle of greatest news in the war between Ukraine and Russia is largely fought on the sky of cities such as, whose inhabitants listen every night the changing noise of the engines of some that both sides constantly modify to leave behind the enemy in this technological career.
The great challenge facing Ukraine today is to protect from the increasingly dense swarms of Kamikaze drones, a technology initially developed by Iran that Russia now produces massively with improvements that ever cease and make it more destructive and difficult to intercept.
To launch at most a few tens of Shahed when he started using them, Russia has used some hundreds of these unmanned devices.
Black painted to reduce their visibility at night and mixing with other drones without explosive to confuse Ukrainian defenses, the new Shaheds are equipped with effective anti-interference systems and now fly to a greater height that sometimes reaches the five kilometers. That makes them, until the moment of their descent towards the objective, unattainable for the light weapons that were enough to reduce them.
All these factors, combined with the scarcity of anti -aircraft ammunition facing the Ukrainian army, has dropped the level of interceptions of practically 100 % that Ukraine achieved in its day to levels close to 80 %.
This translates many nights in more than twenty direct impacts on objectives such as armament production facilities and critical infrastructure.
Ukraine has opted for a priority solution to deal with this crisis: the manufacture at an industrial scale of interceptor drones much cheaper than the missiles to reach – where machine guns do not arrive – to the unmanned planes whose buzz awakens at dawn to millions of Ukrainians.
A heterodox constellation
One of the actors who participate in the mobilization of resources to systematize the use of interceptors is the most effective private entity when buying with donations not manned for the army in Ukraine.
His plan to provide specialized interceptor drones units is a good sample of how heterodox works constellation of public, private, civil and military autonomous actors that has made the Ukrainian defense industry a world power.
As explained to Efe Kirilo Liukov, head of the Unmanned Systems Department of the Foundation, the funds that are being collected will serve to buy interceptor drones that produces the same Ukrainian company that the drones that are now used to demolish to demolish Russian recognition devices on the front.
The plane -shaped model that triumphed in the front was developed to replace the interceptor drones of four engines, which rise similar to helicopters.
“We understood that the drones of multiple engines had their roof due to their speed and flight time limitations,” says Liukov, who also highlights the highest speed of plane drones and the upper amplitude of their radius of action.
Given the enthusiastic reception they have received from the military who use them, the Prytula Foundation has launched a course for the military themselves about the use of these drones-avion whose management requires knowledge other than other unmanned devices. “We offer the entire package, not only the drone but also the instruction,” says Liukov.
The success of this drone in the interception of Russian unmanned devices has made the company that produces them has decided to develop this model to also be used in the rear as a Shaheds interceptor.
While the Serhiy Prytula Foundation expects its trust provider to start manufacturing Shahed’s interceptors, the Ukrainian President, seeks to get its financing that requires the multiply of orders to the different producing companies.
The perspective that countries that now money can incorporate these drones into their respective arsenals have already attracted the main European governments to the project, and Zelenski also hopes to captivate the president’s US administration.
According to Zelenski, Russia works to be able to launch against Ukraine up to a thousand drones every day.
During a visit to a drone factory, Zelenski revealed on Friday that Ukraine should be able to unfold at least 1,000 interceptors per day.
On the fate of the initiative, kyiv’s Victoria options in this facet of the war depend largely.
