Air Force spokesman Col. Yurii Ihnat said on Monday that air defence units had downed jet drones, including the Geran-5, with the turrets.
Machine vision handles targeting, and he said the systems are limited only by the weapons fitted to them.
"The use of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence has eliminated human error and technical calculations," Ihnat told the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet.
Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, a former Air Force officer who now works for defence firm Fly Group Ukraine, agreed, but stressed the limits.
"It is, however, a solution for the 'last mile' because the range and ceiling of effective action are largely limited by the capabilities of the machine gun used," he told Poland's PAP news agency.
Jet drones have shrunk defenders' reaction time from tens of minutes to seconds, he said, beyond what a human gunner can manage.
Russia launches them from mobile sites in groups of five or six, coordinated through data links and relay stations, some in Belarus.
Khrapchynskyi said the biggest challenge is the sheer mass and density of attacks, which risk overloading detection and guidance systems.
He called for deeper layered defences, more firing positions and a wider network of radar, sensors and electronic warfare tools.
Even so, he said, no air defence in the world can guarantee full protection against attacks on this scale.
He also rejected the idea that machine-vision navigation makes electronic warfare less relevant, saying drones still rely on radio links.
The focus, he said, is shifting from broad jamming to cutting the command and data channels that let drone groups coordinate.
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Source: PAP