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"Thanks to the sharp increase in production, Russia can now produce about 170 Geran-type drones per day, i.e. more than 5,000 per month. About half of them are decoys without explosive charges, called Gerbera, designed to enhance the "saturation effect."

 

In three years, the essentially primitive Geran product has evolved significantly. The Ukrainian military announced in late June that it had taken delivery of a model that was equipped with an artificial intelligence-supported thermal targeting system and a new navigation system that improves targeting and resistance to interference.

 

“The Most Economical Weapon”

 

The strike drone can now fly at higher altitudes, making it harder to intercept, and can carry a payload of about 90 kg, twice as much as before. In February, Ukrainian military intelligence reported the emergence of a new version of the Geran-3, a jet-powered variant that can reach speeds of up to 600 km/h, three times faster than its predecessors. These constant improvements have led to new tactics—overlapping trajectories, scattered salvos, dives, and massed strikes on a limited area—that are seriously testing Ukraine’s air defenses. The “penetration coefficient,” the proportion of drones that evade Ukrainian air defenses, has increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 20 percent, according to CSIS researcher Benjamin Jensen.

 

He emphasizes that "this result is explained not by the failure of Ukraine's defense systems, but by Russia's tactical adaptation," which "relies on quantity, persistence and psychological pressure to achieve what accuracy alone cannot ensure." Shooting down such a large number of equipment, the cost of which is estimated at 20-80 thousand US dollars per unit, using anti-aircraft missile systems, such as the Patriot PAC-3, which cost more than 3 million dollars, hardly makes sense, the media writes. Especially since the target could be the Gerbera, which costs 10 times less."