Ukrainian Shooter Downs Russian Drone with WWI-Era Machine Gun

New footage appears to show Ukrainian troops firing decades-old guns to shoot down an Iranian-built Russian drone.

A brief clip shared online appears to show a spurt of gunfire before an explosion, purported to be the moment that rounds fired by at least one Ukrainian-operated machine gun struck a Russian Shahed-136 attack drone.

One open-source intelligence outlet which shared the footage on X, formerly Twitter, OSINTtechnical, said the guns were "nearly centuries old truck-mounted PM1919" models.

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Reports from Ukraine have suggested Kyiv's fighters have successfully used guns that have been around for several decades to battle twenty-first century threats.

"Certain weapons can be used for a very long time since they fulfill a function that remains unchanged," Samuel Bendett, of the U.S.-based CNA research and analyses think tank, previously told Newsweek.

"An AK-47 is almost 70 years old at this point, and has changed little," Bendett added. "Simple submachine or machine guns have remain unchanged as well, like the M2 Browning still in use."

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