Bullfrog anti-drone system transforms how armored vehicles survive modern warfare.

Drones have fundamentally reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, forcing both sides to rethink how tanks and armored vehicles can survive in an environment saturated with airborne threats. Traditional air-defense concepts built around specialized vehicles are no longer sufficient, as modern UAVs now operate at low cost, high density, and with increasing autonomy. This shift has triggered an urgent race to integrate compact, automated anti-drone systems directly onto individual combat vehicles. Western manufacturers, sensing the rapid change in requirements, have accelerated the development of modular hard-kill turrets optimized for spotting and destroying small UAVs. At the same time, electronic warfare—once seen as the primary line of defense—is struggling to keep pace with fiber-optic and AI-guided drones that bypass jamming altogether. The result is a new phase in armored warfare, where survivability depends as much on automated aerial protection as on armor thickness or firepower.

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