UKRAINE are using WW2-style planes to hunt down Russian drones on the battlefield in a blow to Vladimir Putin's increasingly desperate war effort.In a separate video, Ukraine's vintage plane - dubbed the 'Drone Hunter' - can be seen circling Russia's Orlan UAV after it took damage from a direct hit over Odessa, dramatic video showed Kyiv's propeller-driven Yak-52 plane in an intense dogfight with a Russian drone in the sky above southern Ukraine in April.
Air Marshal Bagwell, who served for 36 years in the RAF, said the fact that Ukraine is using a relatively slow propeller-driven plane to take out Putin's 21st century drone is "embarrassing" for Vlad. "There's plenty of them and they're cheap. But they fly in relatively predictable profiles so they're quite vulnerable and fragile.
Air Marshal Bagwell said it's hard to tell the impact the Yak-52s are having on the battlefield - but he said it will be frustrating Vlad's forces at the very least. "You had British planes that would try and take out German bombers over Kent and then as they got closer to London, you'd have artillery firing and balloons."It's not a new way of fighting, it's actually a very old way of fighting.
Earlier this month, Ukraine said its forces hit Vlad's beloved Su-57 stealth jet stationed on an airbase nearly 370 miles from the front lines.DRONES have been deployed in the war in Ukraine on an unprecedented scale as thousands are used daily to hunt down enemy forces, guide artillery and bomb targets - transforming modern land warfare.
Over two thirds of Russian tanks destroyed by Ukraine so far in 2024 have been taken out using FPV drones, a And yet, in a constant game of cat and mouse, both sides are developing increasingly sophisticated means of stopping drones using electronic warfare. If confirmed, it marks the first time Ukraine has struck a Su-27 jet, lauded as Moscow's most advanced fighter plane in a huge blow to Putin.
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