{"slug": "ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor", "title": "Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor", "summary": "Ukraine has unveiled a new jet-powered drone interceptor designed to counter Russian drones, according to a report from The Register. The native design aims to provide a cost-effective defense against aerial threats, with the interceptor featuring a jet engine for high-speed pursuit. The announcement comes amid ongoing conflict, highlighting Ukraine's focus on domestic drone innovation.", "body_md": "### TOP STORIES\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble\n\nGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators\n\n-\nON-PREM\n\n#### US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years\n\n... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping\n\n-\nai and ML\n\n#### AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing\n\nYour irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity\n\n-\nSAAS\n\n#### Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says\n\nShow us the money\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC\n\nFahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot\n\nThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/25/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor/5292081", "published_at": "2026-08-25 10:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 10:13:24.176584+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "autonomous-vehicles"], "entities": ["Ukraine", "The Register"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ukraine-unveils-native-jet-powered-drone-interceptor.jsonld"}}