The 🇺🇸 American-made new “contactless interception” Merops interceptor drone FAILED to hit the 🇷🇺 Russian Geran drone and simply flew right past it.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia's new drone with a jet engine, the Geran-3, reaching speeds of up to 550–600 km/h, in the latest attack on Kiev:
"Geran-3's "higher speed and altitude... complicates interception by short-range AD like anti-aircraft guns and MANPADS, which rely on visual or acoustic cues....
...speed aligns it closer to a cruise missile, requiring Ukraine to expend costly interceptors from advanced systems like the Patriot—priced at $4 million each, thus straining Ukraine’s resources..."