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>There is a reason why both ukraine and israel use mostly missiles to intercept them.
What I personally observe in kyiv during shahed attacks is a lot of gunfire - plenty of something relatively slow-firing and quite loud from multiple locations(you see traces and then a bunch of tiny almost simultaneous explosions in the same spot in the sky), 40mm I presume; sporadic rattling of machine guns or even AKs here and there; and sometimes a short, "dense" sounding burst from something heavier than a machnegun, but much more rapidfiring than 40mm(?) - again, I presume a gepard.
As for effectiveness of those - I see/hear a lot of the shooting, but can't attest to it's effectiveness - I haven't personally clearly seen one being shot down by gunfire. At my location(left bank of the dnipro, windows face east) usually goes like "drone(s) approach from the east, don't even hear the buzz yet, see faint flashes in the sky; then a faint buzz and the same flashes of AA but closer(or to the north/south if it changes course); then if it didn't - it sounds like riding a two stroke bike without a muffler at max rpm, followed by more gunfire from somewhere to the west from me, often fter that I'll hear an explosion, some of them briefly illuminate all surrounding area, so probably those are successful hits, but they happen out of my direct view. Some certainly aren't though - in an attack before the last one, two drones hit rail tracks nearby - one did hit above ground metro line, and the other - regular railway, seems too unbelievable for debris to fall so precisely.
As for missiles - I've seen some kind used and clearly hitting a drone once: early morning may 21, as usual drone from the east, hear faint buzz, see a single missile flying from the ground, then an explosion in the sky, and burning debris slowly falling. When the sound of explosion reached me, the buzzing also stopped - so it was a single(for some reason) drone, and certainly it was shot down.
