BROVDI WARNS RUSSIA COULD EVENTUALLY LAUNCH UP TO 200 BALLISTIC MISSILES AT ONCE
🇺🇦 Robert “Magyar” Brovdi is warning that one of the greatest threats now facing Ukraine is not simply more drones, but the possibility of Russia scaling its ballistic missile attacks to a level Ukraine’s current air-defense network may not be able to absorb.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Brovdi said Russia is currently capable of launching up to 77 ballistic missiles in a single attack, but is working toward the ability to launch as many as 200 simultaneously. Even if Moscow reaches only half of that ambition, he warned, Ukraine could be facing salvos of around 100 ballistic missiles at once.
That is a terrifying prospect because ballistic missiles remain one of Ukraine’s hardest threats to stop. Recent attacks have already shown what happens when Patriot interceptor stocks run thin: missiles get through, and the targets are often cities, energy facilities, logistics hubs and other infrastructure Ukraine cannot afford to lose. .
Brovdi’s argument is therefore straightforward: Ukraine cannot rely on interception alone. It also has to destroy the factories, storage sites and infrastructure inside Russia that produce and support these weapons before they ever reach launch positions.
And the threat is evolving in the air as well.
Brovdi says the number of jet-powered Shahed-type drones has increased roughly 2.5-fold in recent weeks. These faster variants are harder to intercept than the slower propeller-driven Shaheds Ukraine has spent years learning to defeat, forcing air-defense crews to adapt again.
This is the next phase of the air war.
Russia is trying to increase both speed and mass — faster drones, larger ballistic salvos, and enough simultaneous targets to overwhelm the limited number of interceptors Ukraine has available.
Ukraine’s answer is increasingly becoming two-sided: defend the sky where possible, and strike the production system behind the missiles where necessary.
Because if Russia truly reaches the ability to put 100, 150 or even 200 ballistic missiles into the air at once, Ukraine cannot afford to wait until all of them are already flying toward its cities.