Illustrative image. (KB Mashinostroyeniya)
Russia’s 9K333 Verba man-portable air defense missile system (MANPADS) has downed thousands of drones over the special military operation zone in Ukraine, a representative of the High Precision Systems holding company — part of the state tech corporation Rostec — told TASS at the World Defense Show 2026 in Saudi Arabia.
“The system targets drones, and it’s nice to hear that the Verba has downed thousands of them,” the Russian state-run news agency quoted the representative as saying.
The representative noted that the system is currently being used both along the line of contact against reconnaissance drones and to repel suicide drone attacks.
Last November, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that troops deployed at the direction of Kherson shot down ten Ukrainian drones using Verba missile in just one week.
The Verba, developed by KB Mashinostroyeniya, is equipped with a multispectral optical seeker, using three sensors: ultraviolet, near infrared, and mid-infrared.
Cross-checking sensors against one another improves discrimination between relevant targets and decoys, and decreases the chance of disruption from countermeasures, including lasers that attempt to blind missiles. This also improves the missile’s performance against newer threats with low infrared signature, like drones and cruise missiles.
The Verba is reported to have an operational range of 6.5 kilometers, with the ability to engage targets flying at an altitude of 4.5 kilometers with a speed up to 500 meters per second, that’s about Mach 1,5.
The MANPADS can be equipped with a special thermal imaging sight, the 1PN97M Mowgli-2M, which greatly improves the ability to detect and aim at targets at night and in poor weather conditions. It can be also used in conjunction with the 1L122 Harmonium man-portable radar, which has a detection range of up to 40 kilometers.
The missile can be integrated into ground- and sea-based short-range air-defense. There are also reports suggesting that it can be integrated into helicopters, similar to the Igla-V, the air-launched version of the Igla family of MANPADS. In addition, the missile is currently being tested on the interceptor version of the Geran-2 drone.
Prior to the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian military fielded the Verba during the special military operation in Syria. The MANPADS was also exported to Armenia, although it is still unclear if it was used during the second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
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more wonderful news from the russian federation. the age of the pirate is ending
the rothschild family name now appears directly in creating the ukraine war, the destruction of the middle east and even the assassination of charlie kirk. big thanks to epstine and candice for providing the records. the snakes head
grow up ramses so typical waiting for you to turn anti semitic as ever .always denying every bit of obvious truth and spinning every thread of nazi propaganda .didn’t you see epstein’s temple ? everybody knows obama’s lackey , newland ,set it up and everyone knows obama over turned american democracy by taking the people out of the morality for rule of law and inserting the pope in .and everyone knows zelensky takes his orders from the pope which no jew would ever do ..imo
exactly and he has right from the start but originally reporting in to the british cardinal ,until francis shuffled off and now he reports directly to leo .again obviously planned years ago .imo
now that putin’s procrastinated at length to allow the west plenty of time to co ordinate their response zelensky reports directly to the church and crown ,with america as the third wheel .all blatant obviously .set up pre planned every bit of the show including england running their defense forces down with intentions to play their part too .imo
psyops …the world is but a stage … shakespeare’s theatre in the round was called the globe .
to be fair brutus rames comment wasn’t anti-semitic as rothchild or any of his family are not actually semitic.
not agreeing nor disagreeing with his comment only pointing out that people universally confuse the term semite. being anti jewish does not necessarily mean you are being anti-semitic believe that or not.
the rothschild’s corporation is run by an american born female ,a girl raised by an american soldier living on american bases .she inherited almost everything regardless that the rest of the families noses were put out of joint .allegedly .not that you would have the foggiest clue .
which way were their noses put out of joint ?
askin’ for a friend.
what are you talking about you fool .russia’s already block.chained on crypto .almost cashless in fact i’ve not seen one person using cash there for ages .you just live in denial of whatever you don’t t know without realising that you don’t know much of about anything at all .too busy talking to listen .probably your school experience .
all the usual anti american moderation stage crafts the censoring disappearing comments ,the total discrimination in how comments can be formatted or not .all such obvious frauds .
midget vlad pooftin uses manpads when he’s down on all 4’s getting pumped by trump…heheheh
ignorance is your signature .
just can’t work out in my head how with so many observation drones in the sky, how in hell is it possible to amass dozens of military vehicles and hundreds of personnel and supplies within 30km of the front and not be attacked.
war is being “managed”