Geran-4: Russia’s Jet-Powered Attack Drone

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August 2026 | Russian Strike Systems

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The Geran-4 is a Russian jet-powered one-way attack drone, in combat use over Ukraine since May 2026 and built to outrun the cheap interceptor drones that had begun defeating the propeller-driven Geran-2. It cruises at 300 to 350 km/h with a dash reported up to 500, flies at 4,000 to 5,000 m, and delivers a 50 kg warhead over a reported 450 to 850 km, a fraction of the Geran-2’s 1,800 to 2,500 km. Trading reach for speed and altitude is the design’s central decision: it lifts the drone above the guns and shoulder-launched missiles that kill Shaheds cheaply, while confining it to targets within roughly the depth of Kyiv and Odesa from its two known launch sites. At an estimated 85,000 to 120,000 dollars a round, about twice a Geran-2, it flies into a defence fielding 2,500 dollar interceptors at more than 10,000 a month, so the exchange still favours Ukraine whenever a drone intercept succeeds.

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