Ukrainians Arm Cargo Plane With Miniguns to Hunt Shahed Drones
Civilian volunteers operating an adapted An-28 with a minigun have shot down nearly 150 Russian attack drones to support Ukraine’s layered air defenses.
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Ukrainians Arm Cargo Plane With Miniguns to Hunt Shahed Drones
A TV crew from French outlet TF1 boarded a Soviet-era cargo plane and witnessed civilian team members visually identifying drones and firing a hundred 7.62mm bullets per second to score Shahed kills.
The private aircraft received permission to intercept Russian drones only in the summer of 2025, when Ukraine's defence took into account that each aircraft counts. Since then, a small An-28 transport aircraft, a biker, with a lift and its crew of...
Kiev began using two-motor PZL M28 aircraft transferred by Poland, which is a modification of the Soviet AN-28, against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as reported by Telegram Channel Military Informant.
Ukraine uses the An-28 light transport aircraft as a “hunter” for Russian Shahed attack drones.
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