{
  "id": 15895053,
  "title": "The net gun built for civilians in Ukraine’s kill zone",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/the-net-gun-built-for-civilians-in-ukraines-kill-zone",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T13:04:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kyiv Independent",
    "slug": "kyiv-independent",
    "url": "https://kyivindependent.com/the-net-gun-built-for-civilians-in-ukraines-kill-zone/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "At a training with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Omega unit, engineers from the defense tech company BlueBird Tech describe how to use their net gun, named Chipa, to entangle an approaching drone’s propellers. The soldiers rehearse encounters with approaching first-person-view (FPV) drones, monitoring a handheld detector as they walk. Once they spot a drone, one soldier who goes by the callsign…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}