Ukraine's $2,000 interceptor drones stop nine in ten Shaheds. Its ballistic defense depends on a Lockheed line building 52 interceptors a month, and Trump has withdrawn the licence that was Kyiv's way around it.
The Sting is Ukraine's flagship interceptor drone — a sub-$2,000 3D-printed FPV quadcopter from the non-profit Wild Hornets that hunts Shahed attack drones by the thousands, downed the first jet-powered Geran, and can be flown from 2,000 km away. Cheap-mass air defense answering cheap-mass attack.
Codification turns a battlefield-proven interceptor link into procurement-ready kit and lets crews fly the kill from hundreds of kilometers behind the line.
Drone-on-drone interceptors now down most of Russia's Shaheds for about $2,500 each, cheap enough that the US, NATO, and Gulf states want to import the capability. Russia is scaling a 500 km/h jet drone built to beat them.