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Ukrainian Air Defence Getting Better at Shooting Down the Iranian-Shahid Drones
There's been some suggestion that Ukrainian air defence is getting better at shooting down the Iranian-Shahid drones. Low, slow and noisy is never a good place to be if you're trying to penetrate an air defence network. In particular, the German Gephard system, the twin 30 mil cannon tracked vehicle was singled out for particular praise. The reason these are being used more extensively is because Russia's running out of precision guided munitions. They're running out of short range ballistic munitions like the Scander and the KH-101. So they happen to rely on these drones, which are coming into being referred to as kamikaze drones Because they can spot their own target with a
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