{"id":1449028,"date":"2026-10-06T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ground-forces-are-testing-jet-interceptors-scaling-up-is-expected-in-a-few-months\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:43:07","slug":"ground-forces-are-testing-jet-interceptors-scaling-up-is-expected-in-a-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ground-forces-are-testing-jet-interceptors-scaling-up-is-expected-in-a-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground forces are testing jet interceptors: scaling up is expected in a few months."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o-lead\">\n<p><strong>Unmanned units of the Ukrainian Ground Forces are testing jet-powered interceptor drones. Their large-scale deployment could begin in the coming months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Andriy Ostapenko, head of the unmanned systems department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ground Forces Command, commented on this in a comment to hromadske.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, trials are currently ongoing, and some success has already been achieved.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We&#8217;re testing them. There have been some successes in this area. It&#8217;s too early to talk about their widespread use, but we&#8217;re developing them,&#8221; Ostapenko noted.<\/p>\n<p> He added that the first successful kills using jet interceptors could occur within the next one to two months.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I believe that in the near future\u2014a month or two\u2014we&#8217;ll see successful losses. This will be a relatively large-scale undertaking,&#8221; said a Ground Forces representative. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1702\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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>Unmanned units of the Ukrainian Ground Forces are testing jet-powered interceptor drones. Their large-scale deployment could begin in the coming months. Andriy Ostapenko, head of the unmanned systems department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ground Forces Command, commented on this in a comment to hromadske. According to him, trials are currently ongoing, and some success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1431310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1449028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategoriyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449028","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}