Ukraine’s 59-kill cargo plane proves low-tech can beat high-tech
Ukraine is launching every possible light plane to defend against swarms of Russian Shahed drones. The latest is an An-28 transport.
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Russia just spent $ 3 mn to blow up planes that don’t even fly
Ukraine's 1970s drone shotguns were so vexing that Russia decided to blow them into bits with a $3mn Iskander missile. But an epic intel failure got in the way.
Ukraine’s WWI-style drone hunter worked so well that Russia had to steal the idea
Ukrainian drones are hitting Russian territory 1,600km away—so a Russian design bureau reverse-engineered Ukraine's shotgun-armed fighter plane.
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.
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