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The net gun built for civilians in Ukraine’s kill zone

Kyiv Independent21 October 2026, 13:04 UTCUkraine

At a training with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Omega unit, engineers from the defense tech company BlueBird Tech describe how to use their net gun, named Chipa, to entangle an approaching drone’s propellers.The soldiers rehearse encounters with approaching first-person-view (FPV) drones, monitoring a handheld detector

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