Ukrainian Armed Forces are shooting down 85% of Iranian-made Shahed drones

YEVHEN KIZILOV — FRIDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2022, 13:29

Over the past two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have demonstrated much better skills in hitting Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones, shooting down 85% of these drones.

Source: Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at a briefing on Friday

Quote from Ihnat: "If we take two weeks of extreme use of our combat forces against drones (Shahed 136) and the effectiveness of their downing, then today we have a figure of 85%."

Details: Ihnat said that earlier, this indicator was much lower.

He also said that since the first use of the Shaheds in Kupiansk on 13 September, the Ukrainian military "has acquired a certain understanding" of how to organise interaction and cover in certain areas, and by what means it is better to identify and destroy them.

The spokesman noted that attempts had been made to shoot down these drones with machine guns, but this is an ineffective weapon against them, and is dangerous to use in densely populated areas. He said that aircraft, anti-aircraft missile forces, ground forces air defence, anti-aircraft self-propelled guns, large-calibre machine guns and electronic warfare systems were being used effectively to combat the Shaheds.

Background: Just recently, Ukrainian Air Force Command reported that the Ukrainian military has so far shot down 223 Shahed drones since the start of the Russian's use of Iranian-made kamikaze drones.

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