CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agoIf I’ve learned anything from watching combat footage from Ukraine, it’s that shotguns are very effective at taking down drones. Who would’ve guessed the thing used to kill birds kills drones?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageIf I’ve learned anything from watching combat footage from Ukraine, it’s that shotguns are very effective at taking down drones. Who would’ve guessed the thing used to kill birds kills drones?sh.itjust.worksCDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSure a buckshot works great against a drone or two, but what do you do when there’s a swarm of them? We’re getting to that level of sophistication with them pretty quickly.
minus-squareArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSometimes you just need a little more gun.
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoMounted automatic shotgun versions of antiaircraft guns.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you invented a flak cannon
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI thought flak cannons were airburst!
minus-squarenuke@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoLaughs in Metal Storm Technology
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoIIRC that was truely noncredible IRL, and couldn’t get funding.
Sure a buckshot works great against a drone or two, but what do you do when there’s a swarm of them? We’re getting to that level of sophistication with them pretty quickly.
Sometimes you just need a little more gun.
Mounted automatic shotgun versions of antiaircraft guns.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you invented a flak cannon
I thought flak cannons were airburst!
Laughs in Metal Storm Technology
IIRC that was truely noncredible IRL, and couldn’t get funding.