{"id":1401134,"date":"2026-06-03T20:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-drones-plan-to-be-shot-down-over-the-black-sea-media\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:46:34","slug":"russian-drones-plan-to-be-shot-down-over-the-black-sea-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-drones-plan-to-be-shot-down-over-the-black-sea-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drones plan to be shot down over the Black Sea \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1106\" data-end=\"1278\"><strong>To protect Odessa and other coastal cities from Russian drones, they are considering creating a network of sea platforms that will be able to intercept targets even over the Black Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1300\"> Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/startups-shore-up-ukraines-defences-with-sea-drone-swarms-robot-trucks-2026-06-02\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1302\" data-end=\"1478\"> The project is being developed by an American company, BlueShadow, founded by former US Navy submarine commander Charles Maher. The development is already being discussed with the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1480\" data-end=\"1633\"> The idea is to deploy autonomous maritime platforms along the coast, equipped with target detection devices, missiles and interceptor drones.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1772\"> According to the developers&#8217; plan, the system should shoot down Russian drones while still over the sea, preventing them from reaching Odessa and other Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1941\"> Maher said that in the future, the system could consist of four squadrons of 12 drones, operating about 10 to 12 kilometers from the coast.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"2006\"> The first such squadron is planned to be deployed in early 2027.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2008\" data-end=\"2184\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> According to the developers, the project is designed to help Ukraine counter Russian drones that regularly fly over the Black Sea and attack the southern regions of the country. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1247\"> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To protect Odessa and other coastal cities from Russian drones, they are considering creating a network of sea platforms that will be able to intercept targets even over the Black Sea. Reuters writes about this. The project is being developed by an American company, BlueShadow, founded by former US Navy submarine commander Charles Maher. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1401128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1401134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}