The design can be used to attack enemy drones and helicopters, Ukrainian military news outlets say
The “Bullet” drone is said to have a range of 450km and can carry 3kg of explosives designed to destroy enemy aircraft, according to Ukrainian military news outlets, the latest innovation to emerge from the country’s rapidly-developing homemade drone industry.show the sleek black device named “Bullet” performing aerial manoeuvres at an undisclosed test site. The drone has a maximum speed of 450km/h, a range of 200km, and can carry an explosive warhead of up to 3kg, according to the outlet.
Ukraine’s ministry of defence referred an enquiry about the Bullet to its ministry of strategic industries, which oversees development of unmanned capabilities. The ministry said it would “find out the information” and supply a response, which had not been received at the time of publication. “We have seen a number of accidental intercepts recently, when Russian intelligence and reconnaissance drones have been destroyed by Ukrainian drones,” he said. “Such a direction has its promise but it requires a lot of action in terms of combining detection and interception into one system.”
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