Jet-powered Gerans have outrun Ukraine's cheap interceptor drones, leaving fighter jets with half or more of the kills. Brave1's $20,000 missiles and seven fielded interceptors are the bid to bring the price back down.
Ukraine's Bars strike drone is now more than 74% domestically made, and the one part it still buys abroad is the turbojet. A Ukrainian engine has passed final tests. The engine, not the airframe, is what caps output on both sides of the drone war.
Trump granted Ukraine a license to build Patriot interceptors and said the US would buy Ukrainian drones, while Germany signed to produce Kyiv's Bars missile-drone. In one Ankara afternoon, the four-year one-way arms pipeline became two-way trade.