WATCH: Ukrainian Shooter Downs Russian Drone with WWI-Era Machine Gun

New footage appears to show Ukrainian troops firing decades-old guns to shoot down an Iranian-built Russian drone.

A brief clip shared online appears to show a spurt of gunfire before an explosion, purported to be the moment that rounds fired by at least one Ukrainian-operated machine gun struck a Russian Shahed-136 attack drone.

One open-source intelligence outlet which shared the footage on X, formerly Twitter, OSINTtechnical, said the guns were "nearly centuries old truck-mounted PM1919" models.

One account claimed the footage had been filmed in an unspecified area of Western Ukraine. Newsweek could not independently verify the footage, nor when and where it was recorded.

Newsweek approached the Ukrainian and Russian defense ministries for comment via email.

Both sides have made use of older weapons in the more than two and a half years of full-scale war in Ukraine.

A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it attacked buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17, 2022. New footage appears to show Ukrainian troops firing decades-old guns to shoot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones... AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File

Russian military bloggers—often used as sources of information in lieu of official Kremlin statements—said earlier on in the conflict that Russian troops in Ukraine had received "outdated" weapons, including World War I-era guns.

Reports from Ukraine have suggested Kyiv's fighters have successfully used guns that have been around for several decades to battle twenty-first century threats.

"Certain weapons can be used for a very long time since they fulfill a function that remains unchanged," Samuel Bendett, of the U.S.-based CNA research and analyses think tank, previously told Newsweek.

"An AK-47 is almost 70 years old at this point, and has changed little," Bendett added. "Simple submachine or machine guns have remain unchanged as well, like the M2 Browning still in use."

Earlier this year, Ukraine's military said one of its personnel had managed to intercept a Russian cruise missile using an M2 Browning machine gun.

Ukraine has also extensively used large-caliber machine guns in its efforts to shoot down the Shahed kamikaze drones frequently launched by Russia.

Moscow has made extensive use of Iranian-designed Shahed drones and the Russian-made Geran versions, referred to as uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), to strike Ukraine throughout the war.

Shaheds are known for their distinctive, low buzzing sound. They are capable of carrying a warhead that shatters or explodes when it reaches the intended target. Once spotted, they can be relatively easy for Ukraine to shoot down using machine guns or self-propelled anti-aircraft guns like the German-made Gepard—but detecting them is often the biggest challenge.

Russia has upgraded the Shahed drones throughout the war, including using radar-absorbent material and black paint to make the attack UAVs more difficult for Ukrainian forces to spot.