On one of the first days of 2026, the Ukrainian military downed a Russian drone of a new type. It was identified as Geran-5, a fast and long-range drone.
It shares the name with the Russian copies of Iranian Shaheds — Geran-1, Geran-2, Geran-3, and Geran-4 — and is made by the same Russian manufacturer and with similar components.
But the new drone is quite different from the earlier Geran ones.
The Geran-5 drone resembles a winged missile, unlike Russian Shahed-type drones — triangular and d
