🚨 The number of Russian drone strikes on Ukraine has reached its highest level since the start of the full-scale invasion, writes the Financial Times.
Source: Censor.NET
📉 According to the Ukrainian Air Force, from April to June, about 15% of enemy UAVs breached Ukrainian air defenses. In comparison, this figure was only 5% in the previous three months.
🛩️ FT notes that russia is modifying Iranian Shahed drones by increasing their speed and flight altitude, allowing them to evade machine gun fire. In particular, the occupiers are launching modified “Geran-3” drones with a turbojet engine capable of reaching up to 800 km/h during dives.
🧠 Experts emphasize that the issue is not the deterioration of Ukraine’s air defenses but rather the change in enemy tactics: the use of drone swarms and higher-altitude flights. This was explained by Yassir Atalan from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
🔧 Ukraine is currently using electronic warfare, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, including the German Oerlikon Skynex system, to counter drones.
🎯 The article notes that Shahed attacks aim to exhaust Ukrainian resistance and force Kyiv to make concessions. russia also combines drones with missiles to complicate air defense efforts, but the number of successful hits by complex missiles remains unchanged.
🤖 In June, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov reported that Ukraine is already using new technologies, including “interceptor drones,” the details of which remain classified.
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