According to information obtained from Ukrainian military intelligence and battlefield analysis published in September 2025, Russia has deployed a new generation of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles known as Gerbera drones, designed specifically to saturate Ukrainian air defences and impose long-term strategic exhaustion on critical air defence assets. The Gerbera has rapidly become a cornerstone of Russia’s airstrike doctrine, allowing the Kremlin to conduct persistent low-cost attacks that target not infrastructure, but the logic and economy of Ukrainian air defense operations. In an era where economic asymmetry is as decisive as firepower, Gerbera is shifting the balance of attritional warfare in the skies. Read full Defense News at this link ...
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| The Russian Gerbera is a low-cost, kamikaze-style drone designed to overwhelm air defenses through mass saturation attacks, forcing Ukraine to expend high-value interceptors against expendable aerial targets. (Picture source: Russian social network) |
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