Is interceptor drone Ukraine’s best option against Russia?

Russian air strikes on Ukraine cities and towns are increasing rapidly in intensity. Between 1 June and 20 June, Moscow launched 3,681 Shahd drones and fake drones, which work to disorient Ukrainian air defense forces. A year ago, the average was around 600 per month.To combat these attacks, Ukraine is looking for unconventional solutions, such as using interceptor drones.Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the upcoming war in February 2022, Moscow has not only increased the production of drones – it has also modernized them and changed the strategy of deployment.Current drones can maneuver and fly at high altitude, which is why they cannot reach Ukrainian mobile air defense forces with machine guns.“Recently, the Russian Federation is sending drones at a height of about 2 kilometers,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Inat. He said, “This is why it is becoming more and more difficult for our mobile units to stop Shahd drone,” he said.“When the drones fly less, you can see them and shoot them,” he said. “First you find them acceleratedly, then with the help of visually and thermal imaging cameras and viewing devices. Opening fire on them is only once effective when a drone is flying at a height of up to 1 kilometer.” Experts have expressed an alarm in Russia’s latest strategy. “Russia is going to bomb our entire country with Shahd drone. They have greatly increased production and will continue to do so. If we do not work immediately, our infrastructure, our production and our defense systems will be destroyed,” military and communication expert Seri Basketnov warned on social media. In its view, Ukraine needs to train large -scale production and drone pilots of interceptor drones.Ukraine requires separate drones to take Shahdas:On the front, the use of interceptor drones is anything but new. Ukrainian Army is using the first personSee, or equipped with FPV, drone, cameras, which provide the drone pilot for some time with real -time images. These drones are used against various Russian drones, which include monitoring and karissy models.To destroy Shahd drone, which fly faster than many others, however, Ukraine requires special drones. For example, one oral, fly at a distance of 100 to 140 kilometers per hour and the Shahed drone can reach 200 to 300 kilometers per hour, “said Seri Seri Serry, the head of the Sternanko Community Foundation, which provides the Ukrainian army with FPV drones.In such cases, protection required drones with different characteristics. Sternanko said, “Even Ukrainian-made people. Our soldiers have already shot Shahds several times with such drones.”Ukraine produced interceptor drones: According to Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski, his country is focusing on rapid development of interceptor drones to defend cities in Hinterland.“In particular, we are working on an interceptor drone to increase security against Shahdas,” Zelancesi said at the G7 Summit in Canada on 17 June, stating that Ukraine is collaborating with partners to secure more sufficient money.Meanwhile, many Ukrainian manufacturers are already working on such drones. In particular, wild hornets, a non -profit organization that focuses on the production of drones for Ukrainian armed forces, has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to intercepted Shahd and Gerbera drones with their sting interceptor drone.At the same time, the German Startup Titan Technologies is testing its own interceptor drone with the Ukrainian Army, and LVIV-based company Besomar claims that its drone can wait for two hours in the air for a target.At the Dronaryum Academy of Kiev, future drone pilots are trained for air war. They use special simulators for Ukrainian armed forces, and each FPV drone pilot requires about a month to learn to control a drone at high speed.Air Force spokesman Yuri INat said, “We are creating new units to cover cities in Hunterland with air defense systems equipped with interceptor drones and we are also training drone pilots.”Interceptor drones are cheap: “If all the air defense groups had interceptor drones and we could use them to destroy the enemy drones,” said Roman Shemechory, co-founder of Besomer, we would already have something like ‘Star Wars’. “He said, “It will be effective, because you will not shoot in the clouds, rather chase a target to take it out. It is more effective than shooting in Shahdas flying at a height of only 3 kilometers or wasting the missile.”According to experts, interceptor drones are also an appropriate option, which look at the cost of anti-aercraft missiles. According to the unmanned system forces, a branch of the Ukrainian Army which specializes in a drone warfare, an anti-aercraft missile may be priced more as $ 1 million (€ 85.4 million), while an intercepter drone costs around $ 5,000.