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A Ukrainian captain operating near Kyiv said his platoon has shot down every Russian drone it has encountered, despite having what he describes as “antiquated” guns.
“We are using antiquated guns because we don’t have new ones,” Oleksandr Zhygun, a platoon captain in Ukraine’s 241st Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces, told The Guardian.
Zhygun’s Kalashnikov assault rifle was made in 1989, he said, the same year the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Yehven Dolin, a soldier in the brigade, uses a World War I-designed M2 Browning machine gun mounted on the back of a pickup truck, per the outlet.
“It might be old, but it works,” Dolin said of his gun, adding that it doesn’t make sense to deploy a $4 million US-provided Patriot missile to target a $20,000 drone.
Ukrainian troops have resorted to using old weapons, including World War I-era machine guns, antiaircraft guns from the 1940s, and Cold War-era rocket launchers, to try to …
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