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The Bolt interceptor drone has successfully passed initial trials, the All-Russian People’s Front movement, whose Kulibin Club supports the developers, told TASS on April 28.
The interceptor was developed as a low-cost system to repel massive drone attacks compared to traditional air defense systems.
While most interceptors usually rely solely on some form of optical guidance, the Bolt can receive updates on target coordinates from a ground-based radar.
“When the Bolt UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) receives a signal from radar stations, it departs from its launch tube and flies fully automatically to a designated target area. The optical homing head then locks on to the enemy target and engages it with a warhead or kinetic energy. The Bolt has already been successfully tested at testing grounds, and we will conduct further testing with the People’s Front,” a spokesperson for the developer, Ploshchad, told the Russian news agency.
The spokesman added that the Bolt is part of the Ploshchad-PVO air defense system, which integrates detection systems, launchers, drone ports, automated operator workstations, and the interceptors themselves, which, upon command from the operator, launch and engage a verified target.
It is worth noting that the Bolt was first showcased at the Archipelago 2025 forum in the Russian capital, Moscow, last year. The interceptor is basically a quadcopter with a cyclical fuselage. Its specifications, like range and speed, are yet to be revealed.
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The Russian military boosted efforts to integrate interceptors into its multi-tired air defense network over the past year. This came in response to the notable increase in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territories. Such interceptors are cheaper, easier to manufacture and simpler to use than anti-aircraft missiles.
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i hope that this flying dildo gets injected into ukro drone operaters they deserve it.
humiliated by russian superiority i require prozac to tolerate ugly americunt dystopia
i’m guessing that these interceptors can be dotted around the local area with the radar and operator being miles away. some time down the line, the whole system including the radar operation could be done autonomously. it will be interesting to see how it performs but as with any weapon, it isn’t really tested until its use in combat conditions.
ukrainian drone strikes 2000+ km deep inside russia are becoming almost daily occurence, it was perm and orsk today. russia is not able to protect even the most critical sites like orsk where the nuclear strategic rocket forces with the most advanced avangard and sarmat intercontinental balistic missiles are located nearby at dombarovskiy. and how is it possible that ukrainian drones can fly for 15 hours in the russian airspace 2500 kilometers deep without being noticed or attacked?
ukranian drone operators are cowards its such a cowards saddist weapon they deserve to be scalped alive mexican cartel style treatment for sure. no mercy for these mtrfkrs. i have seen too much footage how they k ill mame wounded people who already s urrend ered in brutal fasion ,and it makes me furious i want to beat such a coward jews with joysticks warriors to dea th. they really deserve to be punished now in the war when they are captured and after, publish their names and hang them.
drone operators dont comply with dignity and rules of war they are jews with joysticks and evil saddists and for that they deserve to be punished in the most brutal fashion! never forgive them give their names and punish them!