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Ukraine Is Shooting Down Drones from a Prop Plane with an AR (And It Makes Perfect Sense)
Ukraine is hitting Russian Shahed drones from the back seat of a Soviet-era prop trainer, with an AR. The footage looks like a fever dream, but the physics are sound, the splashes are confirmed, and the logic is embarrassingly simple. The airplane solves the distance problem. The small arm finishes the job.
What this improvised solution actually reveals is a structural gap in NATO air defense architecture that no one in a peacetime procurement office wanted to own. In this video: why the Yak-52's speed envelope makes it a legitimate intercept platform, what Russia is already doing to counter it, and the three purpose-built aircraft that should have filled this gap years ago.
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