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Inside the Cockpit of Ukraine’s Secretive Unit Hunting Russian Drones | WSJ News



In scenes reminiscent of World War I, Ukrainian gunners lean out of propeller planes to shoot down Russian drones. WSJ goes inside the amateur squadron fighting a new kind of war with old technology.

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  1. Well, Ukrainians are geniuses! In a figurative sense, when they started asking for F16 planes to fight drones, and they were very unwise when they tried to use these fighters to fight the drone attack. Later, when they lost 12 supplied F16 fighters on this drone hunt, it dawned on them that this was not what they wanted, that the fighters were a very stupid idea.

  2. The numbers don’t jive. 50 kills over 300 missions but the government is claiming that this set up is responsible for 10-12% of drones killed every day? So either you don’t really have a drone problem or this is some sort of low tech nonsense propaganda. That is a kill roughly every 6th sortie. How TF does that equate to 10-12% a day? This is the problem I’ve been having with both sides of the fight. I expect propaganda from both sides but both sides engage in such ridiculous claims I can’t take either side seriously. This seems like propaganda aimed at showing off the desperation of Ukraine having to resort to WWI era tactics. It is a grift designed to trick people into sending them more money. Meanwhile his uniform is so fresh out of the package it still has all the threads from production all over it. Just like the grift the Russians have done for decades now making everyone think they are this power house and global threat, meanwhile they can hardly sustain a logistic chain into a neighboring country. One side is made up of thugs and the other side is filled with scammers. Let them fight.

  3. Why not just mount machine guns onto the planes again, and go full WW2? Seems like it would be a lot easier than a guy tying to down a drone with his rifle while riding on the backseat?

  4. Seems like Ukraine would find handy to have some L-159 jets to get down drones like that. Those are much cheaper than valuable F-16 but still having very similar weaponry while much faster than that ancient Soviet Yak ✈️

  5. Russia have singlehandedly defeated, demilitarized & humiliated the USA & 45 of its chihuahua vassals & proxy in the former Ukraine. The losers only option is unconditional surrender & reimbursement of Russia's SMO cost.

  6. God, this ends on a sober note. Defend Ukraine!! It sounds like the stuff of Marvel movies when you hear about in-air-combat with freaking shotguns. Absolutely insane.

  7. The Russian Federation , led by the K@remlin and H@utin, has begun to realise that they will be fighting a military war for 50-60 years,🤷‍♂ so they have started terrorising the civilian population.😰 This is deliberate genocide – to create more refugees in the EU and make Ukraine surrender to them ! But it is already clear that this will not happen !😉

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