Ukraine has sent drone interceptors and training crews to the U.S. and its Gulf State allies as the Iran War rumbles on. Specifically, Ukrainian-designed Sting, Bullet, P1-Sun, Octopus 100, and ODIN Win_Hit interceptors could soon be deployed across the Middle East. The lowest-cost model, the Skyfall P1-SUN, costs around $1,000 apiece and is built on a 3D-printed airframe. Al Jazeera reports that the first Ukrainian interceptor devices and military personnel arrived in Jordan as early as last Friday, March 6.
Even as Ukraine struggles against Russia, the democratic Eastern European nation has readily responded to U.S. requests for “specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in the Middle East region,” according to a recent X post by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The embattled president followed up with a post on Thursday, March 12, explaining that he was still waiting for the “approval from the White House” to “sign a big drone production deal.”
