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How Ukraine is hunting Russian Shahed drones with Soviet-era propeller planes | DW News (www.youtube.com)
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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I wonder why NATO has not put together a modernized Spitfire or other WWII forward-firing wing mounted machine gun type plane. The old .303 brownings in theory might workl. High rate of fire, decent range, and enough knockdown power to take out the lightly built drones. Add in some modern targeting, night vision, radar etc. and you might have an highly effective drone killer.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 1 points 3 days ago

It's an easy target for air-to-air rockets. Sure the plane costs cheap but the pilot isn't.

Maybe in a drone version tho.

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