The UK just delivered one of the most aggressively over-armed gun systems Ukraine has ever received: the British Terrahawk Paladin: a palletized, turret-in-a-box drone slayer that looks like someone bolted a medieval armory onto a flatbed truck and rolled it into combat.
If you remember my earlier breakdown of the British Gravehawk, that one was the long-range precision killer. Terrahawk Paladin is its angry younger cousin; built for close-range murder, not polite distance engagements. Think of it as a bar fight with a Bushmaster cannon.
In this video, I break down what the Terrahawk Paladin actually is, how it works, and where it fits inside Ukraine’s layered air-defense network.
The origin story is pure British practicality. MSI-Defense Systems took decades of naval close-in-weapon-system experience, CIWS turrets designed to shoot down sea-skimming missiles at terrifying speed, and said: “Let’s drag it onto land and point it at drones.”
That logic gave birth to Terrahawk, and its evolved form, Terrahawk Paladin.
Here is what Ukraine just received:
• A 30mm MK 44 Bushmaster II cannon firing programmable airburst rounds
• A SKYctrl AESA radar for 360-degree small-target detection
• A SATOS electro-optical tracking station for day/night targeting
• A fully digital fire-control system
• A palletized, crane-deployable turret
• Remote operation from up to 100 meters under cover
Limitations? Sure. It cannot drive itself. It must be craned into position. And once it is planted, it is planted. But that is fine… its entire job is to protect one high-value target with ruthless efficiency.
This is the kind of system Ukraine needs right now. Russia is throwing drones at Ukraine in absurd numbers, trying to exhaust missiles and overwhelm defenses. Terrahawk Paladin plugs the gap, saving expensive interceptors for the bigger threats.
Patriot stops the city killers.
Terrahawk stops the power-grid killers.
Both are essential.
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