Geran-5 Jet Drones Outrun Ukraine's Interceptors | Sep 02, 2026

The cheap-interceptor era just hit a physics problem it cannot buy its way out of.

Russia's jet-powered Geran-5 drones now reach up to 600 km/h at ranges near 950 km, and Ukrainian Air Force briefings on August 30 and 31 reported that the Shahed-type drones being launched were mostly jet-powered — more than 2,800 across August, against an assessed Russian production rate of roughly 3,000 jet drones per month. Ukraine's fielded interceptors, including the 310–365 km/h "Crazy," cannot match that speed, and the new domestic jet interceptor Alexa Spatium has published every performance figure except its top speed. Marcus and Sam also cover the Army's award of up to $33.4 million to Georgia Tech Research Institute as lead weapons systems integrator for the Common Autonomous Multidomain Launcher — the optionally crewed, air-transportable replacement for Typhon, which the service concluded was too large to survive a modern battlefield. Plus Ukraine's strike campaign pivoting from refineries to retail logistics, with 29 Ozon and Wildberries warehouses hit in a week and Ozon shares down roughly 30 percent; L3Harris and Arx Robotics demonstrating the passive Corvus Raven counter-drone sensor on a Gereon ground robot at Project Convergence Capstone 6; the Myla depot secondary-detonation disaster; and the Pentagon's Directive 3000.09 autonomy rewrite, due September 3 with no public text.

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