# Ukraine’s AI Gun Turrets Take on Russian Drones

https://mins.news/en/video/89217

- DW News, 2026-10-07 07:07 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5muTgzi-04

> Ukraine says more than a dozen AI-assisted robotic gun turrets around Kyiv have shot down Russian jet-powered attack drones. As Russia uses faster drones that are harder for conventional air defenses to intercept, Ukraine’s Air Force says the systems use machine vision to track targets and aim .50-caliber machine guns.

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