Shotguns are ineffective against drones more than 100ish yards away. ISR drones commonly work well beyond this distance. Shotguns are also ineffective against FPV drones because their high speed demands marksmanship and fast reflexes in order to hit them. Shotguns don’t work against any of them in the dark because you can’t see them.
So the take-a-way here is that we need to shrink Patriot Batteries down to fit in a backpack and make 100,000 units so we an assign them at the platoon level.
Wrong.
Bigger shotguns.
Also: MORE shotguns
Ks 23 with rednecked proximity fused 23mm FRAG rounds. Wait did we come full circle?
Still can’t see in the dark. That’s why we need backpack patriot batteries.
No, you misunderstand. BIGGER shotguns.
Don’t need to see in the dark if you fill the entire sky with shotgun pellets
You need to think bigger, rods of god buckshot.
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.
Mounted automatic shotgun versions of antiaircraft guns.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you invented a flak cannon
I thought flak cannons were airburst!
Sometimes you just need a little more gun.
Laughs in Metal Storm Technology
IIRC that was truely noncredible IRL, and couldn’t get funding.
I’m so disappointed that we finally got these enormous sci-fi “electric rifles” and all they do is make RC toys land safely.
Is a shotgun really only $200?
I haven’t looked in a while but you could get used Remington 870s (an extremely popular shotgun) for around $200 all day on armslist.
Depends on the model and store you buy it from, but you definitely can buy some hunting shotguns in the 200-250USD range.
