The Gerans.

2026 will end soon, unlike the biggest war in Europe since WW2. This time I checked the Gerans:

Geran-1 were cheap, slow, fragile, and lightweight. 15kg of explosives is barely enough to break an APC. Attacking a trench with Geran-1s is more or less useless.

Geran-2 - the meme dorito drones are so slow and loud that half of them never reached the targets. 50kg of explosives is enough to cripple a normal building, or a fortified field position. ~$30.000 per drone.

Geran-3 was a failed experiment. Fast but made from foam. The project was a lesson to Russia.

Geran-4 are made sturdy enough to fly at 500 km\h. These days they successfully ram into important targets, and special warheads make sure the targets get damaged hard. ~$90.000 per drone.

Geran-5 are cheap cruise missiles. Russia reinvented cruise missiles with drone components for ~$110.000 per unit. Very cheap by missile standards.

The Gerans have changed quite a bit. Geran-6 when?

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