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Serhiy 'Flash' Beskrestnov

personCredibility: 82%

Why this score? Ukrainian presidential adviser on defence technologies and the country's best-known independent radio/electronic-warfare specialist; his technical accounts of Russian drone hardware and control links are unusually specific, checkable and routinely relayed by ISW and specialist outlets. Discounted from higher because he is a serving official and an interested party on Ukraine's own air-defence performance.

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Serhiy 'Flash' Beskrestnov, Ukraine's presidential adviser on defence technologies, said Russia's next step is a cheap jet-powered missile — the Geran-5, Banderol, Dan-T, Dan-M and the jet UMPB-5R glide bomb — pushing speeds from the Geran-4's 300-500 km/h up to 500-650 km/h: 'That is effectively a missile, and it will be very hard for an interceptor to work against such a target.'?

Context: Not yet checkable. The named systems are already in use at lower speeds — ISW records Banderol and S8000 in the September strike packages — but no 500-650 km/h figure has been independently measured.