From 10 Drones a Month to Nearly 100,000 — Inside Ukraine's Largest Drone Manufacturer | Marko Kushnir, General Cherry
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What is General Cherry’s role in Ukraine’s drone industry and how did they start?
If we will have some kind of fully autonomic systems it will be very scary because you don't need other humans to kill the human so that's very scary because you just need a robot, you just need a drone.
You started manufacturing in twenty twenty three. Today is the majority of drones on the battlefield are they manufactured in Ukraine? And where are you in that boop of manufacturers?
I think that Ukraine's better in constructing something new, something new technologies. But Russia of course is better in than us in scaling of these technologies. Drone is not only about targeting. We understand drones and know how to operate it and we know how to destroy it. So we are opening it to different collaborations in different ways.
Introduce yourself. And explain uh the company you work for and The drone you produce and How how important it is in the current uh battle on on with Russia.
My name is Marco. I'm a director of communications of one of the biggest uh drone producers in Ukraine, our company called General Cherry. Uh we produced different type of drones. Uh if uh we have different products like from ordinary chemicals of PV from seven to fifteen inches uh of
seven to fifteen inches.
Initials, yeah. And we and but of course we have a flagman products, flagship products products like uh interceptors. So here is w one of our our flagship, it's interceptor general cherry bully. A bullet, it's a strategic level interceptor for anti-shahead work. So we destroy the Russian Shahats or so-called Geran. Geran is drawn by this drone. But we uh have different types of interceptors. We have uh tactical level interceptors, it's like general cherry air, it's an interceptor for uh different uh drones uh uh who worked in on frontline like Zala, Orlans, Lancets, Monia, and other other Russian Russian drones. And of course we uh we make a drone with on fiber optics and we have different types of fiber optics from uh 10 10 kilometers to 40 kilometers
Forty
kilometer,
yeah. And we think that we can uh make more than forty kilometers and we we we will make it so because uh our our modern uh front line, not frontline of course it's now we call it Kill Zone. You should know about it. So we uh haven't any front line and we haven't any grey zone in our move. We have only kill zone. It's like different parts of front line. Uh the skill zone can be from one kilometer to twenty kilometers. So it's uh area where only the drones rule rule everything. So you can use your wheels. you can use you any type of uh uh big big cars or any type of armored wiggles you can use only your feet. i if you will will will be lucky. Or you can use uh uh different unmanaged systems, air unmanaged systems, uh ground unmanaged systems, so uh and uh of course this zone of of uh
big uh work of uh reps and different poffin technologies and it's uh that's uh uh answers the question why we really need different drones on fiber optics. So we we have it too. Uh our company uh uh was made in twenty twenty three and we started like from ten drones per month. And now we produce more than I can I can give you the correct number because it's not secure security information, but Uh we made thousands of ten of thousands drones per per month, near be one hundred thousand drone per month, maybe. Okay.
Let me just unpack some of that because uh Uh so it's General Cherry is the name of the drone. Cherry you were told. General
Cherry, it's like a the name of company.
And and also the family of drones
the family of drones, yeah.
Cherry, you were telling me it's uh a symbol because the the town that yeah.
Yeah, it's a symbol. Uh originally our company came from Zaporizhia region. It's a uh south and central south part of Ukraine. Uh and the Zapuria region has different symbols and uh one of the symbols of the Paris is uh cherry uh gardens different cherry gardens so uh for us for us it's very important story because we want to remember about uh our roots and we want to remember about uh uh one of the biggest cities of the Parisian region the city of melatopola that is the the cherry is a general symbol symbol of city of melatopol
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is General Cherry’s role in Ukraine’s drone industry and how did they start?
0:00–6:03
2
How does General Cherry design and produce its flagship interceptor drones?
6:03–13:00
3
What are the capabilities and cost of the $2,000 interceptor drone?
13:00–18:32
4
How does on‑device AI targeting work and how accurate is it?
18:32–23:54
5
Why does Marko warn about fully autonomous drones in the conflict?
23:54–27:51
6
How does the ‘kill zone’ concept change the battlefield front line?
27:51–33:16
7
What are the plans for international expansion and commercial uses of drones?
33:16–38:09
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