Alexa Spatium

Ukraine's first domestically built jet-powered interceptor drone, codified in August 2026 to close the speed gap that Russia's turbojet Geran-4 and Geran-5 opened over the cheap propeller interceptors that had been beating the Shahed.

Overview

The Alexa Spatium is a turbojet-powered interceptor drone accepted into service with Ukraine's Defence Forces on 21 August 2026, the first Ukrainian-built interceptor designed specifically to engage jet-powered one-way attack drones. It exists to solve a problem Ukraine created for itself and Russia then solved around: cheap, electrically powered interceptor drones costing on the order of $1,000–5,000 had become the effective answer to the 180 km/h piston Shahed-136, so Russia moved to turbojet airframes — the Geran-4 at 350–500 km/h and the Geran-5 at up to 600 km/h — that simply outran them.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence describes an airframe roughly 1.5 by 1.7 metres, launched from a mobile catapult within minutes, guided by television and infrared sensors, carrying interchangeable warheads, and — unusually for an interceptor — able to return to its launch point for reuse if it does not expend itself on a target.

A note on sourcing. Ukraine has published unusually little about this system. The manufacturer has not been disclosed, and no official maximum speed, range or ceiling has been released. Figures above 600 km/h circulate widely in secondary and social-media reporting but do not appear in any ministry-confirmed specification, and are not stated as fact here.

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