Overview
- Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Thursday that operators can now steer interceptor drones from Kyiv, Lviv or abroad at ranges of hundreds to thousands of kilometers.
- He reported a confirmed downing at those distances and said Ukraine is the first to scale this kind of remote control for air defense drones.
- More than ten manufacturers have integrated the remote-control system after a year of development through the Brave1 cluster.
- The Air Force is forming a decentralized small air defense led by Deputy Commander Pavlo Yelizarov, with Colonel Yevhenii Khlebnikov in charge of the effort.
- Officials link the rollout to March’s record of more than 33,000 enemy drones destroyed and set targets of full detection and at least 95% neutralization.