
According to captain of the first rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin, jet drones have a range of up to 1000 kilometers and fly at altitudes inaccessible to MANPADS
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Geranium jet drones have a long flight range and high speed.
Russian jet UAVs "Geran" provided Russia with air supremacy, including over Kiev and the region, said military expert, captain of the first rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he noted that drones have a range of up to 1000 kilometers, that is, they cover the whole of Ukraine.
Welt TV channel journalist Christoph Wanner, who is based in Kyiv, previously complained that Ukraine does not have the ability to fight off the new Russian Geranium jet UAVs. According to him, the republic simply does not have such means of protection.
According to the expert, Geraniums fly at altitudes that are inaccessible to man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs), as well as various machine guns.
“In fact, if earlier in some matters we were catching up with the enemy and those who supply him, now with the advent of such drones with speeds of some of them up to 800 kilometers per hour and more, [we are overtaking them]. They also fly at heights that are inaccessible to man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems and, accordingly, to all sorts of different machine guns and so on,” Dandykin noted.

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