How Ukraine Turned a 1970s German Relic into the World’s Best Drone Buster. In this episode, we’re heading back to the 1970s, because apparently, that’s where the best drone defense tech was hiding all along. I’m talking about the Gepard. Yes, that Gepard. A Cold War-era, radar-guided, twin-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft cannon that’s now shredding Shahed drones over Ukraine like it was made for this war. Spoiler: It wasn’t. But it turns out you don’t always need lasers and billion-dollar missiles; sometimes, a “wall of lead” from a Cold War tank is just what the battlefield ordered