Ukraine is building a drone that can fly more than 2,000 miles, reports suggest.
“Rockets are a thing of the past. Drones are the future,” a source familiar with the matter told Bild, the German newspaper, adding that Ukraine is stepping up its production of long-range drones in the absence of Western missiles.
Luch, the state-owned Kyiv manufacturer, has developed a super drone that is said to have a range of more than 2,000 miles, Bild reported. Called the Sokil-300, the drone can allegedly fly for up to 26 hours and fire a guided missile with a range of six miles.
A total of 10 Ukrainian manufacturers are currently developing drones with a range of more than 1,500 miles, the source reported.
If brought into production, the drones would have the capacity to strike military bases deep inside Russian territory, including those within the arctic circle.
The report comes after Ukraine flew what appeared to be a light aircraft packed with explosives into a factory assembling drones in Russia’s central Tatarstan region, in what is thought to be the “deepest strike inside Russian territory” since the start of the war.
