"The War of the Future is already here": Ukraine develops its own analogue Storm Shadow, - media

36-year-old Xenia Kalmus worked as a florist, but new realities were forced to move away from flowers. At the beginning of a full -scale war, the Ukrainian woman made gasoline bombs against tanks, and since last summer she has been collecting drones. After suspension of US military assistance, the internal production of weapons was in the spotlight. On March 4, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal informed that in three years it has increased 35 times.

According to him, Ukraine already produces a third of the necessary weapons, but the goal is 50%. The excellent defense Andriy Zagorodniuk explained that production had grown from garages, private homes and small factories in 2022. Initially, there was almost no help from the government, but the sector developed. "In 2024, the armed industry exceeded the government's ability to buy. Now they are now two to three times the purchasing power.

This is something that stopped the Russians among the constant shortage of Western firing power," the former official said. Many company, including Klyn Drones, do not have contracts with the Defense Ministry. However, manufacturers are in contact with the units, delivering drones directly to the front. "Any war is a war for resources. Human resources, financial resources, material resources. Therefore, of course, we can survive only with the help of the event.

But now the question is what resources are the most key,"-said the expert of the ministry Alexei Reznikov. According to him, the primary task is to make money for investments in Ukrainian weapons production. The former minister said that there are "brilliant researchers and engineers" in garages throughout Ukraine who create unprecedented things. "The largest military laboratory on the planet is Ukraine, the second is Israel, but we are the largest.

Therefore, the best investment in European defense is investing in Ukrainian defense," he assured. According to Reznikov, due to small aviation innovations, the cessation of US support will hardly cause significant changes in the situation in the forefront. "It is a completely new war, a hybrid war . . . The war of the future is already here. We, humanity, have passed through the portal," he said. The ex -external noted that the infantry battle is rare.

He appreciated a significant breakthrough of the border with the occupiers as unlikely, because if the enemy and throw a column of tanks in the example of February 2022, it will be destroyed. The developer of drones Valery Borovyk reported "a breakthrough, a positive step that will make Ukraine even stronger. " He said that the production of missiles has already begun, and maybe this year is being presented to the domestic alternative to Storm Shadow.

FPV-Dron as the one that volunteers collect in the Klyn Drones workshop costs less than $ 500. In this case, one or two such "birds" are able to turn into a scrap a Russian tank worth $ 3 million. Recall that the Director of the Department of Procurement of the Ministry of Defense Gleb Kenevsky informed that in 2025 the department plans to buy for the Armed Forces of 4. 5 million FPV-punks. More than 1. 5 million drones were purchased last year.