Poland showed a drone with a missile against other drones — a new weapon at the MSPO 2025 exhibition

Sunday, 7 September 2025

Poland showed a drone with a missile against other drones — a new weapon at the MSPO 2025 exhibition

Haasta with an "anti-drone" missile — how it works

At the international defense technology exhibition MSPO 2025 in Kielce, the Polish Military Institute of Weapons Technology (WITU) showed an unusual but logical system: a Haasta drone equipped with a special Rakieta Antydronowa missile — literally "anti-drone missile". This is not just a demonstration, but a ready-made solution: one drone catches and destroys another.

The principle is simple — Haasta flies up to the target, launches a mini-rocket, which is covered with a net or hits the target with a kinetic strike. This approach allows you to hit accurately, without risking people and without using expensive anti-aircraft missiles.

Why Poland is betting on drones against drones

Drones used to be considered scouts. Now they are weapons of mass destruction. The cost of one attacking drone is thousands, not millions. But shooting it down with the old air defense system is like shooting a sparrow with a cannon: it is too expensive and inefficient.

Poland, as a country at the forefront of NATO, feels this for itself. Air violations are increasingly being recorded on the border with Belarus and along the line with Ukraine. The answer is to create cheap, fast, and autonomous systems that can work in pairs or swarms.

The threat in the sky has become a reality

Scenarios that used to seem like fantasy — drone attacks on oil storage facilities, power plants, and military installations — now occur every day. They are used by both states and non-state formations. Simple quadrocopters with a grenade on top are already doing real damage.

Poland does not want to wait until the threat becomes critical. She develops protection here and now — using technologies that can be quickly scaled.

What the MSPO exhibition will show

MSPO is not just a showcase. It's a signal. By showing Haasta with a rocket, Poland says: we don't just buy weapons, we create our own. And we do it quickly, cheaply and for real tasks.

Such systems can become a standard for the whole of NATO. Because the future of air defense is not in giant radars, but in smart, maneuverable and inexpensive drones that hunt each other in the sky.

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Sunday, 7 September 2025