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When reports first emerged of the Sting's existence in the fall of 2024, the drone's baseline was to fly faster than 100 miles per hour. With video announcement, it has now been recorded notching nearly double that speed. One of industry's rising stars, Sting is being deployed in active combat, though it's unclear at what scale. The Wild Hornets have said one interceptor costs $2,500 & Ukrainian pilots already used drone Sting to destroy roughly 100 Shahed drones.
Still a small contribution to total volume of Moscow's drone attacks launched over 6,000 Shaheds decoys July alone.

But Ukraine hopes interceptor drones will soon shore up the gap in its air defenses. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced a goal for the country to build 1,000 interceptor drones daily. Kyiv's forces generally report shooting down or disabling between 86 to 89% of Russia's Shaheds, meaning that several hundred still get through a month. The reported interception and disabling rate was 82% in May. Russia, meanwhile pushing drone tech of its own reported to be testing & deploying jet-powered versions of Shahed, believed to be modeled after improved Iranian design can fly up to 500 miles/hour.
Russia's rumored jet-powered versions of the Iranian Shahed are appearing in Ukraine's air defense reports. Enemy is making so many Iranian Shahed drones that it could soon launch 2,000 of them in a single night. Ukraine's special ops soldiers are getting into more 'mischief' behind Russian lines Amid Ukraine's elite soldiers are finding other ways to cause problems for enemy. Ukraine are pumping millions of dollars into drones built to kill Russian ones attacking its cities.

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