Back to basics: Old-tech Yak-52 trainer aces as Russian drone hunter-killer

BFBS Forces News
BFBS Forces News
Published on 5.05.2026

A selfie taken by a Ukrainian defender from the cockpit of a very low-tech propeller-driven aircraft shows it doing battle with a very high-tech 21st century weapon – a Russian drone.

The plane in question is a Yak-52, an old Soviet-era trainer repurposed in the fight to help stop the enemy's relentless attacks on the population of Kyiv and the surrounding cities and villages.

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