{"id":106802,"date":"2026-11-04T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/?p=106802"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:20:22","slug":"skyforce-fiber-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/2026\/11\/skyforce-fiber-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyForce unveils new fibre-optic drones on Brave1 Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian company SkyForce has completed trials and codified new variants of its CRONUS 13\u2033 and HERA 15\u2033 UAVs. Both models are available to order on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/tags\/brave-market\/\">Brave1 Market<\/a> platform, the company told Defender Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CRONUS 13\u2033 is an FPV drone with a fibre-optic communications link and a 25 km spool. The UAV uses an analogue video signal, has a cruising speed of 60 km\/h and can remain airborne for up to 24 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day- and night-camera variants are listed on the marketplace, priced at over UAH 102,000 and UAH 136,000 respectively. The drones are also available to order as part of a UAV system priced at UAH 10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/insights\/what-makes-drone-interception-autonomous\/\"><strong>\u201c95% autonomy\u201d means nothing.<\/strong> What actually makes interceptor drones autonomous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HERA 15\u2033 FPV drone has a 30 km spool. It also has a cruising speed of 60 km\/h, can carry a payload of up to 3 kg and remain airborne for up to 28 minutes. The day-camera variant costs around UAH 119,000, while the night-camera variant costs over UAH 152,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the company, the UAVs are already being used in the combat zone. Both p<a href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/2026\/03\/skyforce-new-drones\/\">latforms also have radio-controlled variants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/2026\/10\/skyforce-sfera\/\">SkyForce had developed an autonomous interception platform<\/a> for high-speed aerial targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAVs have day- and night-camera variants and are already being used on the battlefield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_featured_category_order":0,"_article_badge":"featured","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1781,545,2731],"class_list":["post-106802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecosystem","tag-brave-market","tag-codification","tag-skyforce","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SkyForce unveils new fibre-optic drones on Brave1 Market<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UAVs have day- and night-camera variants and are already being used on the battlefield. 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