Ukraine’s Air Defenses Have No Answer for Russia’s New Jet Drones

spectrum.ieee.org · 2026-09-30 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
Russia's jet-powered Shahed drone is ripping holes in Ukraine’s air defenses, prompting defenders to consider AI interceptors and lean neural networks.

Ukraine’s Air Defenses Have No Answer for Russia’s New Jet Drones

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Ukraine’s Air Defenses Have No Answer for Russia’s New Jet Drones

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Near-constant attacks have raised the havoc to a new level

Tereza Pultarova

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Tereza Pultarova is a London-based journalist specializing in aerospace and defense technologies.

3D rendering of two Shahed drones. One drone features a standard delta wing configuration, and the other resembles a torpedo with straight bottom wings.

Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 (bottom) and Geran-5 (top) drones, seen here in an artist’s conception, are outrunning and outmaneuvering Ukraine’s vaunted drone-intercept technologies. The fast-moving drones are causing spikes in death and destruction in cities hundreds of kilometers from the front lines.

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