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Ukrainian airborne gunner shoots down a "Shahed" attack UAV with a machine gun. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Whatever works. Good job.

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago

Camera man understood the role

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Fr. Getting the auto focus and exposure to play nice in that situation didn't look easy.

[-] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 36 points 2 months ago

Always thought that Cessnas with machine gunners was the way to go. Low tech but so are those drones.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 28 points 2 months ago

They're actually already doing it. There was a story making the rounds recently about a couple of Ukrainians in an unarmed Yak-52 shooting down drones by just flying alongside it with the canopy open and the guy in the back seat leaning out to take the shot.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I saw that video and it was amazing. I'm trying to find it but can't.

Nevermind, found the yak video but it's just the pilot circling a drone with a deployed parachute. There is a video of Ukrainians in a Cessna-like plane shooting down a Russian ua with a rifle though and I still can't find it.