“October became a record month for the number of drone launches — General Staff November 5, 17:18 Share: Air defense work (Photo: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich) In October, a record number of launches of Russian attack drones was recorded over Ukraine. According to the Air Force, between August and October 2024, Russia launched 4,300 Shahed attack drones and other models imitating their characteristics. About it on Tuesday, November 5”, — write on: ua.news
Air defense work (Photo: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
In October, a record number of launches of Russian attack drones over Ukraine was recorded. According to the Air Force, between August and October 2024, Russia launched 4,300 Shahed attack drones and other models imitating their characteristics.
This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Tuesday, November 5.
It is noted that the Defense Forces managed to shoot down 3,063 enemy UAVs, which is 71%.
In addition, markings appeared in Air Force reports “locationally lost” — that is, they disappeared from radars, presumably as a result of active countermeasures by EW. So, from August to October 2024, there were 1,052 such drones, which is 24%.
Direct hits by enemy UAVs accounted for 5% of the total number of launches, and additional damage could have been caused by the fall of downed drones, the General Staff added.
According to the data, October became a record for the launch of attack enemy drones:
- August: 818 launched, 701 shot down, 91 lost to radar;
- September: 1,410 launched, 1,156 shot down, 201 lost to radar;
- October: 2,072 launched, 1,206 shot down, 766 lost to radar.
For comparison, in May-July 2024, Russia launched 1,133 drones, of which 1,055 were shot down and 10 disappeared from the radar.
The General Staff added that direct hits by enemy drones accounted for 6% in May-July, and 5% in August-October.
On November 4, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced that Russia currently uses ten times more Shaheds than last fall.
Earlier, the president said that in October, Russia launched more than 2,000 rockets on Ukrainian territory, which contained about 170,000 components from companies from China, Europe, and the United States.
On November 3, Zelensky reported that in just one week, the Russian occupiers used more than 900 bombs, about 30 missiles and almost 500 Shahed-type attack UAVs against Ukraine.
The head of the Foreign Ministry Andriy Sybiga said that in September Russia attacked Ukraine with 1,331 Shahed (an average of about 44 drones per day), in October – 1,908 by Shaheds (approximately 62 drones per day).