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Polifly Unveils Cooper, a Polyurethane Kamikaze Drone for Ukraine

Polifly says a polyurethane airframe cuts weight, lowering costs to enable rapid scaling.

Overview

  • The Cooper was presented publicly at the Brave1 Components exhibition in Kyiv and profiled by French media on December 11.
  • Polifly reports a roughly 19% weight reduction versus composite builds, describing the material choice as key to faster, cheaper manufacturing.
  • Company engineers say three sets of molds could yield up to 700 airframes per month, while current output stands at about 200 drones monthly.
  • Reported specifications include a 1.2 m wingspan, an approximately 5.5 kg warhead, catapult launch, autonomous flight via autopilot and GPS, and ground-station control to about 35 km with a total range over 90 km.
  • The drone is positioned as a Shahed-style loitering munition with modular warheads—thermobaric, high-explosive fragmentation, or shaped charge—against a backdrop of heavy drone use, with Russia claiming to have intercepted 287 Ukrainian drones on the night of December 10–11.