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Wild Hornets Sting
Also known as: Sting · Жало · Sting interceptor
Manufacturer: Wild Hornets (Дикі Шершні)
Ukrainian-developed FPV interceptor drone built by the Wild Hornets volunteer engineering team to ram low-altitude Shahed and other Russian UAVs at high speed.
SPECIFICATIONS
Category
drone-on-drone
In service since
2024
Defeat range
5 km
Mobility
airborne
Domain
airborne
CAPABILITIES
Detection: EO
Defeat: kinetic, drone-on-drone
Drone class targets: Group-1, Group-2
KNOWN OPERATORS
NOTABLE DEPLOYMENTS
Deployed at scale by Ukrainian defence forces from late 2024 to intercept Russian Shahed-136 drones over Ukrainian airspace.
SOURCES
Data confidence: 65 / 100. Catalog is in active development.