The drone’s use is likely to provoke Ukrainian air defenses and present a dilemma between protecting targets in Odessa and preserving their surface-to-air missile stocks.

The escalating war in the Black Sea between Russia and Ukraine saw another innovation on the morning of May 29, 2025, when Ukraine’s General Intelligence Directorate (GUR) said it shot down a jet-powered Russian target drone it identified as the DAN-M . With a new warhead, and possibly tweaked guidance section, it was presumably being used as a cruise missile. The system was originally developed by the OKB Simonova, also called the Sokol Design Bureau. Contents The drone’s use is likely to provoke Ukrainian air defenses and present a dilemma between protecting targets in Odessa and preserving their surface-to-

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