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Posted on 03/12/2026 9:33:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As fascinating as drone warfare can be — particularly the seemingly sci-fi drone-vs-drone variety — keeping up with all the developments is a fool's errand. Yesterday's hot new thing is practically outdated today, and today's hot new thing may look obsolete tomorrow.
That's an exaggeration, of course, but some days it doesn't seem like much of one.
That's why today's news about Ukraine's Sting counter-drone caught my eye, and what it might mean for U.S. and other Western forces going forward.
I vaguely remembered reading something about the Sting a year or more ago, but I just learned today that they're both dirt-cheap and extremely effective — mostly at shooting down Russia's Geran-2 one-way attack drones, which are licensed copies of Iran's Shahed that have caused us considerable trouble in Operation Epic Fury.
Ukraine needs tons of these things, because Geran is essentially a terror weapon aimed in large numbers — currently 100 to 200 per attack — at Ukraine's cities and infrastructure. Larger attack waves include anything from 300 up to just over 800 Geran-2s in one night.
So the concept behind Sting is simply enough: Make something cheap and fast to build, easy to use, yet still capable of knocking a Geran-2 out of the sky far enough out from its target for some degree of safety.
And a local startup firm called Wild Hornets delivered on all three counts.
A typical quadcopter design and just over a foot tall, Stings are made mostly from 3D-printed parts and can be assembled in about two minutes. Unlike some drones that must be launched into the air via catapult (really), Sting takes off vertically like a helicopter before tipping over and using its stubby wings to fly like a plane, with an intercept range of 15 miles or so.
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The laser system the military is developing should be able to take out drones in rapid fashion.
Just in time for Skynet.
Why don’t we have a directed EMP that would fry the electronics in anything inbound? Aah.. No big money for MIC projectiles...I get it.
The system named Meteor has changed things.
We do - basically it’s a high power radar burst. But, it is limited by weather conditions and focus issues, plus, it broadcasts it’s own location like Melania walking down a runway back in her modeling days. It’s not compact, either. All that adds up to vulnerability to, among other things, Iran’s cluster munitions.
Everything has it’s advantages and disadvantages...
A side note: Many moons ago, my electronics mentor was, among other things, the head RF tech / engineer at a local (regional) airport. They got in a new radar unit, and wanted to test it’s operation (does this thing come on?) before mounting it in its elevated configuration. So they set it up out on a runway and fired it up. Some bright guy had thought to put a cardboard box 10(?) feet out in front of it: The box quickly burst into flame.
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