In scenes that look more like they're from World War II than modern warfare, Ukraine is now hunting Russian drones from helicopters and downing them with machine gun fire. The Iranian or Russian-made drones fly at low altitudes, at relatively slow speeds (185 km/h max), and are made with composite materials that make them hard to detect for anti-aircraft radar. And Russia has hundreds and hundreds of these things, either bought from Iran at around $200,000 each, or made domestically in Russia. Downing them with surface-to-air missiles is effective but also expensive, as Ukraine always has limited supplies. So they've come up with a novel approach to the problem: hunting them from attack helicopters.
The video above is from a side-mounted machine gun, while the text below refers to the machine gun mounted in the front window of another helicopter. As always, the Ukrainians add some music, in this case Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally."
Source: Euromaidenpress
A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter shot down a Russian Shahed combat drone with a forward-mounted machine gun located in the nose of the aircraft, says Militarnyi.
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