Forbes: Ukraine Revived WWI Tactics With Training Aircraft
16- 25.03.2025, 21:15
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The aircraft is virtually invulnerable in the air.
Military experts claim that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recently spotted using a second Yak-52 aircraft hunting Russian kamikaze drones.
Yesterday, footage was posted online showing a two-seat training aircraft hunting drones in the style of the First World War, Forbes
reports. The aircraft model was developed back in the 1970s and has a piston engine.
The pilot sits in the front seat, and the gunner in the back. Military experts write that since May 2024, the Yak-52 training aircraft has shot down more than one kamikaze drone in the skies over the Kherson region.
Admirers of this attack aircraft have published videos and photos in action and on the ground. The growing number of drone kills on board the old training aircraft spoke to its effectiveness as a drone killer. It worked so well that the Ukrainian intelligence service began training shooters to hunt Russian drones from local Aeroprakt A-22 sports planes.
Since the summer of 2024, Putin's army has also been hunting for this type of aircraft. The aircraft itself is very difficult to destroy in the air, since it is small in size and flies far from the front line. The Kremlin can only carry out missile strikes on the Yak's base.
This is what was done on July 15, 2024, when a missile strike was carried out on the Gidroport airfield in Odesa. One OSINT analyst said that the Iskander destroyed three drones, one hangar, and possibly damaged one of the air defense batteries.
Over the next four months, the Yak was not seen in the air. It may have been in the hangar that was hit.
It is possible that a second Yak entered service in November 2024. The colorful Yak-52 that appeared Monday could be that second plane, or another in a growing fleet of piston-engine fighters that have revived World War I tactics for the drone age.
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