Ukraine develops DART missile dropped from stratospheric balloons to bypass Russian air defenses
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Reuben Johnson
Summary
Ukraine's Center of Innovative Technologies Program has developed the DART missile, an electronic warfare-resistant weapon that is dropped from a balloon at stratospheric altitudes (8-11 miles) rather than launched from an aircraft. This delivery method allows it to bypass Russia's air defenses, which are designed to intercept fast, low-flying threats. The missile goes dark in mid-flight to resist jamming and can target infrastructure like power grids. The stratospheric balloon approach presents a difficult-to-counter attack vector.
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· 3 pulledA Ukrainian defense enterprise called the Center of Innovative Technologies Program has developed an electronic warfare (EW) resistant missile called DART.
The difference with this weapon is that it is not launched from an aircraft but instead dropped from a balloon while at an altitude of 8-11 miles above the surface of the earth.
Russia's air defenses are built to catch threats that come in fast and low. Ukraine's newest deep-strike weapon is neither — it falls silently from the stratosphere, shrugs off jamming by going dark in mid-flight, and can short out the power grid where it lands.
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