Email from Monday, June 29 2026 Click Here to Read on the MDAA Website Follow and Support MDAA MDAA Alert: Russia’s Advancing Geran Family of Attack Drone Capabilities   (Top) Recovered wreckage of a Russian Geran-2 (Iranian Shahed-136) downed over Ukraine; (lower left) a Russian Geran-3 jet-powered variant; (lower right) a captured thermal image of an aerial Geran-4. (Open-source imagery.) Dear Members and Friends, In our mission to illuminate, elevate, and educate, we are honored to announce a new MDAA series.  Our latest MDAA report in our spotlight series focuses on Russia's Geran Family of Attack Drones and their advancing capabilities Key Points The Geran is a mass weapon, not a precision one. Its operational value comes from volume and cost asymmetry — launched in the hundreds to exhaust air defenses — rather than from accuracy or sophistication. Wartime employment of the Geran has scaled by roughly two orders of magnitude. From a handful of imported drones in late 2022 to a reported ~57,000 cumulative launches by March 2026, with daily strike-drone averages exceeding 130 and single-night salvos often surpassing 700 aerial weapons. The Geran is the foundational component of a layered strike doctrine. It is routinely combined with Gerbera or Italmas decoys and with cruise and ballistic missiles to fragment, saturate, and exhaust Ukrainian defenses. The Geran family is iterating faster than the defense. Heavier warheads, jam-resistant Kometa navigation, Starlink control, AI-assisted seekers, air-to-air variants, and jet-powered Geran-3/4/5 models have all reached the battlefield, eroding Ukraine’s high interception rates against Russian attack drones in 2024. Cost asymmetry is the strategic core. A Geran attack drone costing tens of thousands of dollars routinely draws interceptors costing many times more, making sustained defense cost prohibitive and offering a template Russia could apply against NATO. Click here to read the full report. Winners Associate with Winners to Win! Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Click Here to Join MDAA _____________________________________________________________________ MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c) (4) organization. Our mission is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats. We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit our website www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org for more information.   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance 515 King Street, Suite 330 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: (703) 299-0060 Email: [email protected]   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance | 515 King Street Suite 330 | Alexandria, VA 22314 US Unsubscribe | Constant Contact Data Notice