Meet Ukraine’s elite drone unit taking down Iran’s Shaheds with cheap AI interceptors

“Magyar’s Birds” is Ukraine’s top-scoring drone brigade. Embedded in Dnipro, our reporter saw how the unit hunts Iranian-designed Shahed drones using low-cost, partly AI-driven interceptors – part of a multilayered defense system that stops $50,000 threats without firing multi-million dollar missiles, now drawing attention from the U.S. and its allies. As Iranian drone attacks cause widespread damage across the Middle East, these Ukrainian interceptor drones have suddenly become one of the most sought-after battlefield technologies worldwide.