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Powerus co-founder Brett Velicovich says Russia’s jet-powered strike drone poses a serious challenge to Ukrainian air defences and requires jet-powered interceptors.
Russian Geran-5 K5-K strike drones pose a serious threat to Ukraine’s air defences, Brett Velicovich, a former US Army special operations intelligence analyst and co-founder of Powerus, told Fox Business, according to UNIAN.
Velicovich said the jet-powered drone could fly at 450–600 km/h and reach a peak speed of 1,000 km/h. He described it as difficult to intercept and said jet-powered interceptors were needed to counter it.
He argued that Ukraine and Russia were ahead of the United States in these drone technologies and urged American developers to account for Russia’s growing strike capabilities when designing countermeasures.
Velicovich also said Powerus makes interceptors capable of shooting down drones of this type, giving his assessment a commercial context: he represents a manufacturer of the countermeasures he advocates.
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