Ukraine’s F-16 Rocket Could Break Russia’s $12 Billion Drone Bet

Russia’s new jet-powered drones fly higher, fly more than twice as fast, and Ukraine is stopping only about half of them. 🚨 But under the wings of Ukraine’s F-16s hangs a 70 mm rocket with a design lineage going back to the 1940s, one that costs about as much as a family car. Could it break the economic logic of Russia’s entire drone campaign? In this video, we break down: ✅ Why the Geran-3, Geran-4 and Geran-5 cracked Ukraine’s air defense shield ✅ Why a $200,000 drone is forcing Ukraine to spend missiles worth millions ✅ How the APKWS guided rocket works, and why the US Air Force chose it ✅ The honest truth: no public record yet of it killing a jet drone ✅ The three-country race (US, Europe, Ukraine) to build an “anti-Geran” interceptor ✅ NATO’s $1.58 trillion vs. Russia’s $12 billion jet drone budget, and why politics, not engineering, may decide the outcome Can the West build a cheap interceptor fast enough, or will Moscow find another way around it first? Tell us in the comments 👇 👍 Like this video if you want more military and defense economics analysis 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss the next one 💬 Join as a member for even more videos Some figures come from parties to the war and cannot be independently verified. #Ukraine #Russia #Drones #APKWS #F16 #Shahed