Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Sun" channel.

  1. Aerospace engineer and pilot here: You are 99% right. What they need are planes that can get up to the drones fast AND THEN match speed AND THEN be a stable gun platform. The Yak 52 is nothing like a Spitfire. One is a basic trainer the other is a thoroughbred designed to out fly other planes of the same era and type. Also the Spitfire is from the 1940s and the Yak is from the 1970s. I am actually surprised they have not done this a lot sooner but I also think they are using the wrong plane. Among the Russian planes is the newer Yak 152 which I don't think they have in Ukraine. It was designed to replace the Yak 52. But the planes I do know they have are the Russian aerobatic planes (Yak 54, Yak 55, Sukhoi SU26, 29 & 31). The reason I think the aerobatic planes would be better is they not only have better speed to get to the drones but they are also very stable. Most people assume aerobatic planes are very twitchy and some like the American Pitts Special are. But the current generations of aerobatic planes are designed to be very stable so that they score better in competition. Its like gymnastics with a plane and there's no points for ho wild manoeuvres are the points are for how clean they are just like in gymnastics. In fat the scoring is very similar to gymnastics and springboard diving. So a plane like the German Extra 330 with 4 P90 machine pistols in each wing arranged like they were in the Spitfire gives you a plane that can get up fast chase down drones and then be very stable while you shoot them down. The trick would be MATCHING the speed of the drone so you can take a clean shot at it. So you are very very close. In fact you are closer to what I think is the right answer than anyone else I have seen.
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