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Kyiv Counter-UAV Unit Manned by…Judges?

I saw this interesting short on DW about administrative and criminal law judges in the Ukraine capital who, barred from front-line service due to the need to keep them on the job, ditch their robes and moonlight (literally) as members of an AAA battery that runs vintage Maxim PM M1910 machine guns from the city’s rooftops.

Keep in mind that Maxims, joined in twin and quad mounts, were the original ZPU in the 1930s and was used against aircraft arguably faster and more maneuverable than many of today’s UAVs

If you have a few minutes, it is a cool story.