{"id":121473,"date":"2026-03-31T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=121473"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:00:16","slug":"two-kilo-missile-downs-a-kamikaze-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fr\/two-kilo-missile-downs-a-kamikaze-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n\nSomewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile \u2014 weighing less than two kilograms and measuring just 65 centimeters long \u2014 found its mark. The kamikaze drone ceased to exist.\r\n\r\nWelcome to the future of air defense, where drones hunt drones and the missiles are lighter than a bag of groceries.\r\n\r\nThe hunter is called the Bird of Prey. Built by Airbus Defence and Space, it is an uncrewed interceptor designed for one purpose: killing the cheap, expendable attack drones that have reshaped modern warfare from Ukraine to the Middle East. Its first demonstration flight, completed just nine months after the project began, worked flawlessly.\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Economics of Drone Defense<\/h2>\r\nThe drone problem has a math problem at its core. A Shahed-type kamikaze drone costs a few thousand dollars. The missiles traditionally used to shoot them down \u2014 Patriot interceptors, IRIS-T rounds, even NASAMS munitions \u2014 cost anywhere from $250,000 to over $3 million each. Fire enough of them, and the defender goes bankrupt before the attacker runs out of drones.\r\n\r\nAirbus and its partner Frankenburg Technologies are attacking that cost equation head-on. The Bird of Prey prototype has a 2.5-meter wingspan, weighs 160 kilograms at takeoff, and carries four Frankenburg Mark I missiles \u2014 with the operational version designed to carry eight. That means a single reusable interceptor can fly multiple sorties and kill multiple drones per mission.\r\n\r\nMike Schoellhorn, CEO of Airbus Defence and Space, put it bluntly at the announcement: defending against kamikaze drones is \u201ca tactical priority that urgently needs to be tackled.\u201d The Bird of Prey, he said, offers a cost-efficient answer that can scale.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Airbus Defence tweet<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AirbusDefence\/status\/2038562024150446120\">View tweet<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The World\u2019s Lightest Guided Interceptor<\/h2>\r\nThe real star of the show is the Frankenburg Mark I missile. At less than two kilograms and 65 centimeters long, it is the lightest guided air-to-air interceptor ever built. It flies at high subsonic speed, uses fire-and-forget guidance, and carries a fragmentation warhead designed to shred a drone at close range \u2014 up to 1.5 kilometers from launch.\r\n\r\nKusti Salm, CEO of Frankenburg Technologies, called the demonstration \u201ca defining step for modern air defence\u201d that creates \u201ca new cost curve.\u201d He is not exaggerating. When your interceptor is reusable and your missiles weigh less than a water bottle, the economics flip entirely. Suddenly the defender has the cost advantage.\r\n\r\nThe system is also designed to plug directly into NATO\u2019s Integrated Battle Management System, meaning it can operate alongside existing air defense networks like PATRIOT, IRIS-T, and Gepard without requiring new command infrastructure. That interoperability is what turns a clever prototype into a deployable weapon system.\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Prototype to Battlefield<\/h2>\r\nAirbus and Frankenburg plan more test flights throughout 2026, this time with live warheads, to push the system closer to operational readiness. The market for a weapon like this is enormous. Every NATO country with a drone threat \u2014 which is every NATO country \u2014 needs a cost-effective answer to the one-way attack drone problem.\r\n\r\nUkraine has been begging for exactly this kind of capability for years. The Middle East conflict has reinforced the lesson. And the Bird of Prey, born from concept to flying killer in just nine months, shows that when the urgency is real, European defense can move fast.\r\n\r\nThe age of drones hunting drones has officially begun.\r\n\r\n<em>Sources: Airbus, Defense News, AeroTime<\/em>\n\n<!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}.mf-faq-answer a{color:#5C91FF}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is the Bird of Prey drone interceptor?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Bird of Prey is an uncrewed drone interceptor built by Airbus Defence and Space to shoot down cheap attack drones. In a March 2026 demonstration over northern Germany it autonomously detected a kamikaze drone, chose its weapon and fired a missile weighing under two kilograms, destroying the target. Its first flight came just nine months after the project began.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why are cheap drones so hard to defend against?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Cheap attack drones create a cost imbalance: a Shahed-type kamikaze drone costs only a few thousand dollars, while the surface-to-air missiles traditionally used to stop them can cost hundreds of times more. Firing expensive interceptors at disposable drones is unsustainable, which is why militaries are developing low-cost answers like <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/autonomous-drone-on-drone-interception-ukraine-maxon\/\">drone-on-drone interceptors in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is a Shahed drone?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Shahed drones are Iranian-designed loitering munitions, or kamikaze drones, that fly into a target and detonate. Cheap and produced in large numbers, they have been used heavily against Ukraine and across the Middle East. Their low cost and high volume have forced defenders to seek affordable counters rather than expensive missiles.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Can drones shoot down other drones?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Yes. A new class of uncrewed interceptors is designed specifically to hunt and destroy enemy drones, using onboard sensors and small missiles or kinetic strikes. Systems like Airbus's Bird of Prey and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/britains-drone-killer-from-sketch-to-contract-in-14-months\/\">Britain's rapidly developed drone killer<\/a> show how quickly drone-versus-drone air defence is maturing.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How does autonomous air defence work?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Autonomous air-defence systems use sensors and artificial intelligence to detect, classify and engage threats with little or no human input. In the Bird of Prey's 2026 test, the interceptor identified a kamikaze drone, selected a weapon and fired entirely on its own. 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