Video: Russian takes down drone with spear

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ANDREA PALASCIANO Drones fly while competing during the Drone World Cup in Pourrieres, southern France, on May 14, 2016. / AFP / BERTRAND LANGLOIS (Photo credit should read BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images)

While the U.S. is spending millions on lasers and cannons to shoot down drones, Russia has shot shoot down a UAV with a much more low-tech weapon.

Or rather, a group of medieval reenactors in the Lipetsk region of central Russia shot down a drone with a spear, according to website Web siteDigital Trends.

The YouTube video shows a bearded, helmeted man on the ground hurling a spear at the UAV, which then crashes.

There is no word on whether the Russian military, now engaged in a massive modernization program, will be deploying spear-based anti-drone defenses.