Ukrainian troops share lessons learned from fighting Iran's Shahed drones
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 10 days, Iran has unleashed one weapon in particular at countries that host U.S. troops. |
| 0:06.7 | Shahed drones have targeted American bases killing U.S. troops and hitting civilian infrastructure and energy facilities. |
| 0:13.7 | But long before they flew across the Middle East, Shah heads fired by Russia targeted Ukrainian troops and infrastructure. |
| 0:20.1 | We have two looks at the drone threat, |
| 0:22.7 | starting with special correspondent Jack Hewson, one of the few foreign correspondents who reported |
| 0:27.7 | from Harkiv at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Jack returns to that eastern Ukrainian city |
| 0:33.5 | to meet frontline troops who have more experience facing Shah Head drones than anyone else. |
| 0:40.2 | Harkiv's air war doesn't begin in the city. It starts out here in the fields and villages |
| 0:45.2 | that lie between the front line and the regional capital. |
| 0:49.0 | We're on our way to a position about 20 kilometers from the Russian line in Yuzhou, in |
| 0:53.2 | Harkiv province. And strangely, even though we're a long way from Harkiv, the city itself, |
| 0:58.0 | this is where air defense actually begins. |
| 1:00.0 | Shaheds fly over this area in the direction of the city, and it's here that they're intercepted. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's also where they intercept Russian observation drones as well. |
| 1:10.0 | Notice the nets. That's to protect cars like ours. |
| 1:13.6 | Making this journey more harrowing is the fact that short-range first-person view or FPV drones |
| 1:19.6 | have hit vehicles here. |
| 1:21.6 | They have an expanded range and are now guided by fiber optic cable to evade electronic jamming. Everything which is closest to 40 kilometers could be destroyed by Russian drones, |
| 1:33.3 | by different types of drones, not only PV drones, but lancet and a lot of other types of Russian drones. |
| 1:42.3 | Drone and missile strikes, many launch from deep inside Russia have hit Harkiv, |
| 1:47.0 | Ukraine's most bombarded city, for years. |
| 1:50.0 | And it's only getting worse. |
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