A Thousand Geraniums a Day Is an Approaching Reality – The Economist

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Russia will soon be able to attack Ukraine with swarms of drones up to a thousand a day, The Economist reports, citing Ukrainian intelligence data.

Ukrainian military intelligence says it has documents that show Russia plans to ramp up drone production to 500 a day, suggesting 1000-unit attacks could become a reality

- writes a magazine.



If in 2024 the Russian Federation produced about 300 Geraniums per month, now the same number of drones is produced in less than three days. At the same time, they have already undergone the sixth modification and strike using machine learning. The latest models are not afraid of Ukraine's electronic warfare. This is due to the fact that they no longer rely on jammed GPS, are controlled by artificial intelligence and rely on Ukraine's own Internet and mobile Internet networks, the publication explains.

Already, if ceasefire negotiations fail, "air defense units will have to ration their interceptor missiles," the article says.

More Russian missiles and drones will penetrate them to strike cities and critical industries

– the publication states.

The main challenge for Ukrainian air defense will be the huge number of air targets. The complexity of protecting the skies for the Ukrainian Armed Forces will only increase. Now, in order to avoid mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, drones first fly low, and then sharply rise to an altitude of 2000-2500 meters, approaching cities, overcoming the threshold for small-caliber guns.

Air defenses around Kyiv still knock out about 95 percent of drones, but the 5 percent that slip through cause “serious damage,” according to a senior Ukrainian official.

That's why Ukraine is turning to helicopters, F-16 fighters and interceptor drones, which have already begun to show good results.

– the article says.
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  1. prior
    prior
    +2
    26 May 2025 10: 20
    No less important than the total number of Geraniums is the purpose for which they are launched.
    And we still have problems with the goals... Apparently, some kind of agreement is still in effect.
    They forgot about the points of political decision-making, no one remembers the fuel and energy complex, there is no talk about transport hubs, bridges, banks, petrol stations, etc. But this is all infrastructure.
    If this is not a prolongation of military operations, then what is?!
    It turns out that the war is a quarter of a "bump".
  2. vlad127490
    vlad127490
    0
    26 May 2025 16: 39
    One hundred Geraniums a day is not enough. We need to produce at least 1000 Geraniums a day. 30% will reach the goal, the number of goals is more than 100 thousand.
  3. steelmaker
    steelmaker
    +3
    27 May 2025 08: 35
    Even a million a day. What are our generals bombing? Everything works, everything moves, everything glows. Where is the result? Our government has found a pastime for itself, at the expense of our lives.

    Forbes calculated that by 2256 Russia will reach western Ukraine at the current rate of advancement

    The yellow press is already making fun of how Russia is fighting.
  4. Foe Pshekov
    Foe Pshekov
    0
    28 June 2025 00: 51
    The one who first starts launching 10 thousand attack UAVs per day will gain total superiority.
    There is no escape from such a quantity in the current conditions. So the task is very simple, to scale up production by 20 times. Then it will be possible to reach the Dnieper in three months