Fight in the spirit of the First World: The Armed Forces found a new way of fighting hundreds of drones "Orlan-10" (video)

The scene reminded the confrontation between the First World War: the Jaco-52 plane, which apparently belongs to the Ukrainian aeroclub, maneuvered around the Russian reconnaissance drone "Orlan", and the shooter in the back seat of Yak-52, apparently, was targeted by a machine gun. Forbes writes about it. The drone dropped under an emergency parachute, which automatically opened, which indicated that it was damaged. Two months later, such a scene was repeated.

Last Saturday, another video of the Air Battle between the Russian reconnaissance drone Zala and the Ukrainian Yak-52 has spread on the network. The video shot the drone. The new video apparently confirmed that the artillerymen in the back seats of "Jacob" are really used to fire on Russian drones. Some observers, for their part, suggested that the training and training aircraft of the 1970s fired on drones from sub-guns or rocket blocks.

But, according to Italian aviation expert David Chenchiotti, not all of them have been modified for the installation of creeping weapons. In addition, "some" effectively fulfill what the Italians call the mission of "slow interception". Such missions are involved in military, police planes or helicopters, which are intercepted and flying next to the goals that fly more slowly and lower, in pain and other controlled airspace to determine the threat.

The US coastline regularly fulfills similar missions over Washington (District of Columbia) to prevent terrorist attacks and scare off random civilian planes that deviated from the course and headed to the White House or Capitol. According to the expert, the main feature of a relatively slow interceptor aircraft is its low dumping speed. But such an interceptor also needs another person in the crew in the back seat.

It can keep in touch with the pilot of the intercepted aircraft or fire if there is a real threat. If the Armed Forces continue to use this approach, such planes as Yak-52 will be able to circle over vulnerable cities, such as Odessa, in anticipation when radars on Earth will send them to Russian drones. Yak-52 goes a course on a slowly flying target. The crew confirms that the goal is hostile. The gunner in the back seat is aimed.

It is a safe and inexpensive way to protect against many hundreds of Russian intelligence drones that run over Ukraine. A safer and cheap way compared to supersonic MiG-29 fighters, which can be broken while firing a UAV flying low. Among other things, the Migiv crews are now engaged in the fight against Russian air defense batteries and the troops on which bombs are dumped. The intercepting of unarmed intelligence drones can be done by much less sophisticated planes.