Yartura Dancer

The Yartura Dancer 4.5.0 is a Ukrainian fixed-wing, catapult-launched interceptor drone that reaches 450 km/h and uses an AI-based automatic homing system to circle and re-attack a target drone until it is destroyed, built to counter the rising speed of Russia's Shahed/Geran-family attack drones.

Overview

The Dancer 4.5.0 is an aircraft-type interceptor drone unveiled in early June 2026 by the Ukrainian company Yartura, first reported by Militarnyi and the Ukrainian defense outlet Oboronka from a company announcement. It is a small, electric, fixed-wing airframe — 6.8 kg at takeoff with a 1 kg warhead — whose defining features are a company-stated top speed of 450 km/h and an Automatic Target Tracking System (ATTS) that lets the drone re-engage on its own if the first attack pass misses, maneuvering around the target until impact. Yartura says the interception pattern "resembles a kind of dance around the target," which gave the system its name.

The Dancer belongs to the fast-growing class of Ukrainian interceptor drones fielded against Russia's nightly Shahed-136/Geran barrages, but it targets the segment where that class has struggled: jet-powered Geran variants that cruise well above the speed of the propeller-driven Shaheds most interceptors were built to catch. Its listed target set is broader than Shahed-class strike drones alone, extending to reconnaissance UAVs, relay drones, FPV kamikaze drones and other small aerial targets, according to Defence Blog and MILMAG.

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