A balloon with protective cables intercepted for the first time a 100-kilogram UAV with a wingspan of 4 meters, said Polina Albek, founder of the First Airship Aviation Planning Bureau.
"Yes, there are successful examples of using balloons to protect against UAVs. A winged UAV, weighing about 100 kg and with a wingspan of about four meters," Albeck said.
In the past, photos of tests of barrage balloons with tensioned cables and Kevlar wires to prevent Ukrainian kamikaze drones were published.
Judging by the description, what was intercepted was not the FP-1 or the Fierce, which have significantly larger mass and wingspan, but something smaller, like a UJ-22 or AQ-400.