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.
Berlin is paying Quantum Systems to scale interceptor production inside Ukraine before any interceptor drone has shown it can reliably kill Russia's jet-powered Gerans.
Fire Point can now damage Moscow's oil economy, but Russia brings more weapons, industrial capacity and societal slack to a winter campaign that is already spilling into NATO airspace.
The first Geran-5 kills show that Ukrainian interceptors can catch Russia's fastest attack drones. The next six months turn on factories, financing and a Patriot stopgap.