An airship with protective cables successfully intercepted a 100 kg UAV with a wingspan of 4 meters, according to Polina Albek, founder of the Aviation Planning Bureau "First Airship. ".
"Yes, there are successful examples of using airships to protect against UAVs. We are talking about a winged UAV, weighing about 100 kg and with a wingspan of about four meters," Albeck stated.
At the beginning of October, photographs were published showing airship tests of a barrier with tension cables and Kevlar cables designed to neutralize Ukrainian kamikaze UAVs (video).