{"id":1401765,"date":"2026-06-05T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/light-aircraft-instead-of-expensive-missiles-how-to-effectively-shoot-down-shaheeds\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:12:59","slug":"light-aircraft-instead-of-expensive-missiles-how-to-effectively-shoot-down-shaheeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/light-aircraft-instead-of-expensive-missiles-how-to-effectively-shoot-down-shaheeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Light aircraft instead of expensive missiles: how to effectively shoot down \u201cshaheeds\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Over the long years of military confrontation, the state leadership has failed to establish a rational system for combating cheap enemy drones, which continue to cause significant damage to Kyiv and other cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Former Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva, in a comment to &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkrlLDM3gY8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed<\/a> serious criticism of the current air defense strategy of the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n<p> He stressed the need for alternative solutions. &#8220;A very ordinary An-2 &#8220;corn harvester&#8221;, in which you put two suspensions for unguided missiles, which, by the way, are also hung on helicopters. Only an unguided missile is, for example, the American Hydra 70,&#8221; the former pilot noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkrlLDM3gY8&#038;t=712s<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/air-terror-as-a-means-of-deportation-how-to-protect-ukrainian-cities\/\">Air terror as a means of deportation: how to protect Ukrainian cities<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Reva explained that using expensive missiles to eliminate drones costing tens of thousands of dollars is economically unprofitable. In contrast, light-engine aircraft, which even female volunteers can fly after three months of training, are capable of effectively patrolling border areas and intercepting most enemy aircraft before they reach megacities.<\/p>\n<p> This approach does not require complex airports or excessively expensive maintenance, since An-2 aircraft are able to land without problems even in field conditions, &#8211; Andriy Reva summarized.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of Tuesday, June 2, Russian occupation forces launched a massive attack on Kyiv. As a result of the shelling <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/armiia-rf-masovano-atakuvala-kyiv-ie-zahybli-desiatky-poranenykh\/\">, damage was recorded in several areas of the capital<\/a> , with fatalities and dozens of injuries.<\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that in Kyiv, after the Russian shelling <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kyievi-pislia-ataky-rf-zminyly-marshruty-transportu-ta-perekryly-nyzku-vulyts\/\">, public transport was temporarily changed and several streets were blocked<\/a> . The reason was damage to the contact network and the consequences of the enemy attack.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, during the massive attack on Kyiv on June 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-zminyla-taktyku-udaru-po-kyievu\/\">Russian troops resorted to a change of tactics, launching an additional missile strike in the morning,<\/a> when the consequences of the night shelling were still being eliminated.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the long years of military confrontation, the state leadership has failed to establish a rational system for combating cheap enemy drones, which continue to cause significant damage to Kyiv and other cities. Former Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva, in a comment to &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, expressed serious criticism of the current air defense strategy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1401286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1401765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}