Direct proof of use
PIRANHA HAD-5 Panel appears in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War as a Ukrainian counter-UAS electronic-warfare system. A Finnish National Defence University master's thesis on Ukrainian Armed Forces C-UAS systems in 2022-2024 lists Piranha HAD-5 among electronic-warfare C-UAS systems used by Ukraine and identifies its function against control links, GNSS, 2G, and 5G bands.
A separate March 13, 2024 Lutsk city council notice reported municipal support to Ukrainian military unit A6175 that included two mobile portable PIRANHA 5 HAD anti-drone complexes. The notice does not name the Panel configuration, so it is best treated as documented fielding of the HAD-5 mobile portable line alongside the more specific survey and manufacturer material for the Panel model.
Sources: Ukrainian Armed Forces C-UAS Systems 2022-2024, Lutsk City Council Supply Notice
Timeline
The public record places the system in the full-scale phase of the war. The Finnish survey covers Ukrainian Armed Forces C-UAS systems from 2022 through 2024, while the Lutsk notice gives a dated local-government supply event on March 13, 2024.
Piranha Tech's 2025 catalog provides the manufacturer context for the same HAD-5 family and states that Piranha Tech equipment was being used by different units of Ukraine's Defence Forces in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Sources: Ukrainian Armed Forces C-UAS Systems 2022-2024, Lutsk City Council Supply Notice, Piranha Tech 2025 Catalog
Narrative
The HAD-5 Panel's documented role is force protection against small unmanned aircraft rather than strike use. Piranha Tech describes the Panel direct-action complex as a front-line tool intended to protect moving combat groups from drone-dropped munitions and to operate from a backpack or fixed installation for sector defense.
The system belongs to Ukraine's broader wartime counter-drone layer. The Finnish survey frames Ukrainian C-UAS systems as tools for reducing the threat from unmanned aircraft through detection, tracking, jamming, or kinetic defeat, and places Piranha HAD-5 in the electronic-warfare C-UAS group. The available sources support Ukrainian fielding and supply of the system, but they do not document a named battlefield engagement, location of operation, or confirmed drone defeat by a specific HAD-5 Panel unit.
Sources: PIRANHA HAD-5 Panel Product Page, Ukrainian Armed Forces C-UAS Systems 2022-2024
