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.