• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    This is like how in World War I, pilots would shoot at each other with handguns.

    I am surprised at how stable the drone firing the shotgun is after the gun fires. There appears to be very little recoil.

    What’s a hard drive drone?

    • Steve@startrek.website
      4·
      30 days ago

      a semi-automatic shotgun has a lot less recoil than a single shot gun because it uses the recoil energy to cycle in the next round.

      Not sure what type of action they have on these guns

    • Wilshire@sopuli.xyzOP
      41·
      1 month ago

      It was a mistranslation from Telegram’s built-in translator. Here is the correct translation:

      For the first time on video – drone “Winchesters” shooting down other drones with buckshot

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      30 days ago

      There appears to be very little recoil.

      They don’t say what gauge they’re firing, which would be a factor. Might be less than 12-gauge.

      If you figure that weight of the gun is going to cut into flight time, you might want a light gun if possible.

      EDIT: The video here shows Ukrainian soldiers testing shotguns against drones. The guy says that #3 buckshot is inadequate to break the blades:

      https://www.twz.com/land/anti-drone-weapon-with-24-barrels-firing-buckshot-like-rounds-emerges-on-russian-buggies

      So there may be some lower bounds on what they can effectively use. It looks like there are double-aught .410 shells, but I’d guess that you wouldn’t be sending many balls downrange.

      EDIT2: I was wondering about using a 40mm underbarrel grenade launcher firing flechette rounds earlier, as that’d let everyone in a squad carry something that’d have at least one round that’d put a lot of projectiles downrange quickly; one has to assume that a squad patrolling isn’t going to give up their assault rifles for shotguns or similar. NATO does have a 40mm canister round.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    30 days ago

    I can see a couple of ways it’d evolve in the future, but it’d interesting to see if these bots get regular deployment and become a new threat to all drones on the battlefield.