Russians Panic Over US Drone Of The Ukrainian Armed Forces

• 14.04.2026, 14:14

They are undetectable by standard means.

Ukrainian troops began to use "Martianin" drones to strike at the rear of the Russian army.

"[...] have a cruising speed of up to 300 kilometers per hour, they fly no longer by the operator on a tip-off, but are controlled by artificial intelligence," said the head of the occupation administration of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.

The means of electronic warfare are unable to detect such vehicles, and drone detectors do not react to them.

In January 2026, the chief designer of Russia's Center for Complex Unmanned Solutions (CCSU) Dmitriy Kuzyakin said that the U.S. company had begun testing its own drones - quadrocopters and long-range aircraft-type vehicles - in the AFU.

According to him, their key feature is navigation without GPS. Drones navigate by camera images of the terrain rather than satellites. This technology was previously used in space missions to Mars - hence the name of the drone.

It is probably about the drone Hornet, which is a development of the American company Swift Beat LLC, headed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The history of this device is atypical: it was not created by direct order of the Pentagon, but is a commercial project aimed at creating the most effective and cheapest means for high-intensity conflicts.