This small kamikaze helicopter defends Ukraine from Shahed drones
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Russia’s long-range attacks on Ukraine usually involve a combination of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. The drones, mostly based on the Iranian ‘Shahed’ design, are getting faster, more sophisticated, and more numerous – but since last summer Ukraine has been deploying a powerful new weapon in defending against them: the interceptor drone.
Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg spent a day with one of the teams using them to defend the skies over Eastern Ukraine.
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