Ukrainian drones shooting down UAVs deep in Russian rear; enemy aircrafts cannot fly even over Kursk

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According to the report, the Ukrainian army has learned to shoot down enemy drones deep above Russian-controlled territory, OSINT analyst Andrew Perpetua reports on Platform X. He noted that previously, the typical situation was when Ukrainian interceptor drones shot down enemy drones over their territory, or in the so-called gray zone, at best - a couple of kilometers deep into Russian-controlled territory. But now this has become more of an exception, while the typical situation is the interception of Russian drones deep in the Russian rear."Recently we have been seeing interceptions at a distance of 12, 13, even 18 kilometers from the front line," the analyst wrote. According to him, the current record distance at which Ukrainian drone interceptors have been recorded is more than 32 kilometers deep into Russia. As can be seen from the published geolocation, this occurred in the Kursk direction.

The report also stated that it is not specified what types of Russian UAVs are falling victim to Ukrainian anti-aircraft drones at such a distance. But it is worth noting that both sides are currently using reconnaissance drones of the "wing" type for visual observation of the front line and their own frontline zone - in case of penetration by enemy sabotage groups.As media wrote, Ukraine has been using interceptor drones to hunt Russian drones for about a year now. This technology is constantly being improved, and the range of its application is expanding. If at first Ukrainian drones hunted exclusively for enemy reconnaissance UAVs, now they are also used to intercept Shaheeds.However, the Russians have already realized that they need to immediately copy all Ukrainian know-how in order not to suffer defeat in the war. Therefore, now the aggressor is also using interceptor drones at the front. This forces Ukrainian military engineers to look for means of counteracting Russian drone hunters.According to military observer David Axe, there were a lot of drones on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides on the front line, and it became too expensive to fight them with traditional air defense systems, so both sides began to fight cheap drones... with cheap drones. That is, the new class of interceptor drones inspired developers to create means of protection against these interceptors.

The report added that the first anti-drone cages, which Ukrainian observers called 'desperation cages', began appearing on Russian armored vehicles shortly after Russian forces expanded the war against Ukraine in February 2022, the expert writes. Soon, "tiny drones that explode on contact became the main threat to equipment and troops in an ever-expanding kill zone stretching for miles from the line of contact."

Watch the report on the YT link.