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UkrainePublished: 8 October 2026 at 11:55

Ukraine's Sargan-3000 Sea Drone Takes on the Role of Anti-Aircraft Gunner

At sea, a radio-steered Russian Shahed met a remote-controlled machine gun on a Ukrainian sea drone. It was operator against operator, and the gun won.

Foto: Euromaidan Press

Ukraine's Sargan-3000 sea drone has taken on the role of an anti-aircraft gunner. An operator controls its machine gun remotely.

A Russian Shahed drone steered by radio met this remote-controlled machine gun at sea. The source describes the episode as a duel between operators. One operator steered the Shahed, and another controlled the gun from a distance. The gun won.

The available excerpt gives no further details. It does not say where or when the encounter took place. It also gives no technical specifications for the Sargan-3000 and no information on how the Shahed was brought down.

The episode shows that a Ukrainian sea drone can serve in an anti-aircraft role as well as in other tasks. It can be used against an aerial drone that an enemy operator is steering.

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