Our mission

Protect · fund · prove

Civilian air defencecommunity

We fund FPV interceptors that stop Shahed, Molniya and other one-way attack drones before they reach the cities.

Donate, and you find out what your drone did.

Illustrated cost comparison: approximately $2,500 for an interceptor and $70,000 for a Shahed — cost-asymmetric air defence

How it works

Payments open soon. Choose a region now and you'll be first in line.

Find your region

Donetsk Region

Your region

Choose a region, then leave your email to hear when its pool opens.

FPV footage · GUARDSOpen original video

First deployment · Donetsk region

interceptors funded

Shahed downed

lost in action

awaiting deployment

Every drone we fund gets a report. Including the ones that don't come back.

Visual materials

Interception, up close.

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Verified GUARDS reports

Illustration of an FPV interception — Interception illustration
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OSD illustration with a sample team nickname — On-screen display · example
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How it works

Choose your region

Your contribution joins the pool for that region.

The pool funds an interceptor

Regional pools are converted into FPV interceptors for crews working that airspace.

The crew flies it

Interceptors are handed to verified crews operating in your region.

You get the report

Downed, lost, or still flying — the result is published after the crew confirms it.

Two ways to join.

Pre-launch

Solo

Join a regional pool

Contribute any amount to your region's pool. When the interceptor it funds flies, you get its report — downed, lost, or pending.

Team

Bring your people

Create a team, share one link, and fund an interceptor together. The first 50 teams to fully fund one receive a physical GUARDS award.

Payments are being connected. Both paths open at launch.

Join your region

Team funding

The first 50 teams receive the GUARDS award.

A team is your company, group chat, friends, or city. Fully fund an interceptor together and your team can become one of the first 50 award recipients.

GUARDS top team award containing an intercepted Shahed fragment

This is not a lottery. Each of the first 50 teams that fully funds an interceptor receives a statuette made with an intercepted Shahed fragment.

Reserve a team name

No payment at this step — the name is held until teams open.

Operation Logs

Verified Impact

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No verified public reports yet.

The first report will appear only after review and confirmation of its event date.

Threat context

One-way attack drones.

Shahed-136 (also designated Geran-2), Molniya and Gerbera are launched in mass waves against Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure. FPV interceptors are built to stop them before impact.

Target class

Shahed-136 (Geran-2)

Molniya

Gerbera

Stopping an attack drone before impact reduces risk to people and infrastructure. Interception is the part of that work a community can fund directly.

Attack volume · 2026

The scale changed. Now the threat is changing.

Monthly launches remain at an industrial scale. March is left blank because no confirmed monthly total has been published — we do not interpolate missing data.

Shahed-type UAV launches by month, 2026

Data through August 2026

May record · 8,150

Source: Shahed Tracker, compiled from Ukrainian Air Force reports

Published annual launch totals

Context only — not GUARDS results

Source: Ukrainian Air Force data compiled by UNITED24

The threat has changed

What used to work is starting to fall behind.

Ukraine's air-defence system is working, but jet-powered attack drones are scaling faster than the existing response. Interceptors built for piston-powered Shaheds cannot reliably catch the new generation — a faster interceptor class is needed.

Jet-powered drones · August

2,800+

×8 in two months

Interception rate · August

83%

92% in May