{"id":341507,"date":"2026-03-16T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/341507\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:32:14","slug":"ukraines-anti-drone-tech-is-in-high-demand-as-iran-attacks-its-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/341507\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s anti-drone tech is in high demand as Iran attacks its neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, Ukraine could prove to be an invaluable trove of battle-tested expertise from its own bitter and costly fight against Russia.<\/p>\n

After months of pressure and hardened rhetoric <\/a>from Washington aimed at ending the war<\/a> in Ukraine, Kyiv is now also fielding requests for help as Iran\u2019s Gulf neighbors grapple with the modern reality of drone warfare.<\/p>\n

Hotels, airports and residential buildings have been hit in cities across the Gulf, wreaking havoc as Iran targets the U.S. military bases hosted by its neighbors. It\u2019s a picture all too familiar in Ukraine, whose skies are swarmed by hundreds of Russian drones on a nightly basis, many of them of the Shahed type designed in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"TOPSHOT-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-WAR\"A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to launch a drone interceptor in the Donetsk region on Jan. 22.Tetiana Dzhafarova \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kyiv\u2019s forces deflect the majority of them every night, not with expensive air defense missiles \u2014 as many countries in the Middle East have done \u2014 but with much cheaper and more effective interceptor drones, technology honed and perfected by four years of intense drone warfare.<\/p>\n

The raging war <\/a>has made Ukraine a unique \u201cecosystem\u201d that allows for real-time testing of innovative drone technology on the battlefield, said Marko Kushnir, a spokesperson for General Cherry, one of Ukraine\u2019s top drone manufacturers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback loop between the front and the manufacturer is very short,\u201d Kushnir said. \u201cWe can get feedback in the morning, and in the evening have a solution that will be tackling new tasks on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

Created in 2023 by a group of veterans and volunteers, the Kyiv-based company produces close to 100,000 drones a month, Kushnir said. One of its flagship interceptor drones specifically stops Shaheds and is actively used by Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, he added. The company was invited to take part in the Pentagon\u2019s $1 billion Drone Dominance initiative before the Iran war broke out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a level of expertise that Ukraine has paid heavily for, Kushnir said \u2014 \u201cwith lives, territory and a very long war with a bigger, better-resourced enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are two countries in the world that understand from experience how to fight a daily, grinding technological war with drones, he said. \u201cThat\u2019s us and Russia,\u201d Kushnir added.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s allies recognize that now, he said.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said earlier this week that he received nearly a dozen requests from the U.S. and countries in the Middle East and Europe for \u201cUkraine\u2019s experience in protecting lives, relevant interceptors, electronic warfare systems, and training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s experience in countering attack drones is \u201cirreplaceable,\u201d he said in a series of posts on X, and \u201cthe most advanced in the world.\u201d Kyiv has dispatched teams to the Middle East, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of a weapons exchange, with Ukraine desperate for air defense missiles to counter the sophisticated weapons that Russia is using against Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure on a near daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not about being involved in operations. \u200bWe are not at \u200bwar with \u2060Iran,\u201d Zelenskyy told Reuters in comments released Sunday. \u201cThis is about protection and a thorough, complete assessment on our part of how to counter the \u200bShaheds.\u201d<\/p>\n

He \u2060said that what Ukraine will get in return for the assistance still needed to be discussed, adding: \u201cHonestly, for us today, both the technology and the funding \u2060are important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, Ukraine could prove to be an invaluable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-341507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}