Kiev’s “secret” weapon against drones: old machine guns

A phalanx of machine guns from every era and every calibre: the venerable ones Maxim Bolsheviksthe pairs Zsu of the Red Armyself-propelled German gepards re-emerged from Cold War warehouses. Against the rain of drones and missiles fired by Russia, Ukrainian soldiers are massively resorting to the mother of all anti-aircraft weapons: automatic weapons pointed upwards.