Analysis of Russian Drone Technology in Ukraine

Russia's Geran long range drones have evolved from piston engine models

to jet powered variants, the Geran four and the Geran five,

pushing speeds

over three hundred kilometers an hour. Jesus.

Ukraine's air defenses, which are heavily reliant on mobile firing

groups

and cheap interceptor drones, was built for slower targets.

The speed upgrade slashes detection and reaction time,

rendering these low cost

defenses largely ineffective. They force Ukraine to use expensive

full fledged surface to air missiles, which is like what?

Two million dollars a pop. And they're running low already because of

the war in

Iran.

Mixing-- and then what Russia's doing is mixing low cost piston drones, the, the

slower drones I assume that is, with the fast jet powered variants,

Geran four and Geran five. And they use decoys as well to

over-overwhelm the radar

systems on the Ukrainian side and being able to strike a lot

more targets consistently.

After Russia's success, Iran is seeking modernized Russian variants of

the drone.

So Iran's looking at having similar drones,

which would cause havoc in the Middle

East for the Americans in Gulf countries, 'cause they're struggling with the

piston ones and piston engine models, let alone

a jet powered model that the Ukrainians are struggling with.

So I can't even imagine what that would do to the Persian Gulf.

And even the US and China are also adopting the Russian doctrine of

rapid mass production, continuous battlefield feedback, and swift

iteration. What can you tell us about those drones

and, and how much of a

difference are they making?

It's a huge difference. I mean,

you look at these Geran four and five drones.

And by the way, this week there was Ukrainian air defense

operators that were quoted in the media saying that they tracked some of these

Geran fives going up to eight hundred kilometers per hour.

It's insane. You know, Ukraine has these older

mobile air defense networks that they could occasionally

intercept Russian drones with, but these are just

unstoppable. You know, these new drones are too fast.

Uh, the videos that we're seeing of them, they're highly mobile and agile in the

air. They can avoid air defenses very well.