Forbes: Ukrainians Shot Down Orlan Drone Using Plane

This is a challenging way to deal with UAVs.

A Ukrainian shooter downed a Russian drone from a propeller plane. This method is complicated but cheap.

According to Forbes, the slow tactics of air battles of the First World War have returned to the battlefield. At that time, propeller planes did not have front machine guns. Therefore, pilots, and more often co-pilots, used pistols or rifles against enemy aircraft.

More than a century later, small arms fire from the rear seats of screw planes is again used. Last week, a shooter in a 1970s Yak-52 trainer aircraft belonging to a Ukrainian volunteer aeroclub staged a fight with a Russian Orlan drone over southern Ukraine, shooting down a $100,000 drone.

"This is not the first time that the tactics and technologies of the First World War have been restored at the frontline in Ukraine. Trench warfare is back. Also, "turtle tanks" and "Maxim" machine guns. But the air battle ‘shooter against a drone’ may be the most dramatic example of a modern war that unfolds in the brutal conditions of the Ukrainian conflict," the article reads.

The attack was filmed from the ground and in the air. In the video, a 1.5-ton aircraft circles around the Orlan, shots are heard, and a damaged drone falls under its automatically opened parachute.