Wild Hornets' Sting interceptors integrated with MAGURA V11
A still from a Wild Hornets video depicting MAGURA V11USV integrated with two Sting interceptor UAVs posted on 4 September 2026. (Wild Hornets )
Ukraine's Wild Hornets (Dyki Shereshni) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) company said a number of its Sting interceptor UAVs were integrated on the new V11 variant of Ukrainian-UK company UFORCE's Maritime Autonomous Guard Unmanned Robotic Apparatus (MAGURA) unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
Wild Hornets made the announcement in a 4 September 2026 social media post accompanied by a video showing two Sting interceptor UAVs being launched from container hatches onboard a MAGURA USV. A total of 18 similar-sized containers appear to be on-board the USV in the video. The same number of containers can also be seen onboard a MAGURA USV on the Dnipro River in a 24 August video posted by the Office of the President of Ukraine. Wild Hornets went on to confirm in early September that a MAGURA V11 USV was shown in Ukraine's Independence Day parade video, on 24 August, alongside other MAGURA models.
Interceptor integration
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU, also known as HUR) has been using Sting interceptors integrated with MAGURA USVs for “a long time”, Wild Hornets said in another 4 September social media post. Previous versions of the MAGURA family of USVs are also in service with the DIU, according to Janes Unmanned Maritime Vehicles.
Wild Hornets said in a 19 April social media post that, “for the first time”, a Shahed one way attack (OWA) UAV had been shot down using a Sting interceptor UAV launched from an unnamed USV. The interceptor was piloted by an operator from the 412th
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