CDET

CDET (Defense & Electronics Technology) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian firm specialising in defence and radio-electronic technologies, best known for the RAM family of loitering munitions. Its RAM II is built around the airframe of DeViRo ’s Leleka-100 reconnaissance UAV, reworked into a strike platform with roughly 55 minutes of endurance, a range of about 30 km and a 3 kg warhead offered in thermobaric, HEAT and high-explosive/fragmentation versions. The munition mounts a stabilised camera with optical zoom and is marketed for accuracy down to about a metre. The RAM programme has been developed in concert with several Ukrainian defence enterprises, among them Ukroboronprom , DeViRo and Spetstechnoexport (Ukrainian state arms trader), and the family was shown publicly at Ukrainian and international arms exhibitions before the full-scale war. By one industry tally roughly 550 RAM units have been produced.

The more recent RAM-2X, unveiled in April 2024, is an upgraded X-wing derivative built for manoeuvrability and longer reach. It carries a 2.7 kg explosively formed penetrator (EFP) warhead — a charge that forms a high-velocity metal slug on detonation — and has been reported striking targets beyond 120 km while operating under electronic-warfare conditions, though figures vary by source and some of the longer-range claims are not confirmed by the manufacturer. Ukrainian forces have used the munitions against air-defence systems, radars, ammunition depots and armour across Donetsk, Luhansk and the Kursk direction; RAM II was credited with destroying a Russian surface-to-air system in Kherson oblast.

In December 2024, CDET and Ukrspecsystems publicly demonstrated the RAM-2X working in tandem with the Shark reconnaissance drone — marketed as a “killer duo,” with the Shark handling detection, tracking and signal relay to extend the strike drone’s reach. The RAM-2X remained in active service into 2026.