Forbes: Ukraine’s canary-yellow vintage Yak-52 is hunting Russian drones like it’s World War I again
Once a training plane, the Yak-52 has found a new purpose in Ukraine, where it hunts Russian drones with unconventional techniques.
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Vintage drone-hunting Yak-52 plane returns to Odesa skies
Ukraine’s vintage Soviet-era training aircraft is back after a four-month hiatus, resuming its mission to intercept Russian surveillance drones.
Ukraine downs Russian drones with Soviet-era training plane in WWI-style dogfight
Amateur aviators from Odesa have recreated a World War I tactic of the second pilot shooting with small arms to down a Russian recon drone
