Rednecks have already proven that is hard bordering on impossible to safely shoot down a drone. Short of using drone-specific countermeasures, you might as well be using a butterfly net.
There is drone countermeasure stuff being developed and deployed, but its use has to be made legal first. The law doesn’t allow the military to shoot down random things that are not an immediate threat. People love to act like this is ridiculous and a scandal, but considering that tiny drones haven’t really been a problem for decades (and aren’t actually that big of a deal RN), I thinks its reasonable to take a moment and develop procedures…
I guess it is easy to jam civilian drones, but more sophisticated military ones probably have systems to navigate without a constant signal connection. i guess once in place and knowing the last heading, returning “home” should be rather easy to automate.
Apparently not well enough. There’s enough videos online of people trying and failing to shoot at drones that it’s a sort of well-proven fact that until a drone is VERY close, like 30-40 feet is my guess, it’s out of buckshot range. The war in Ukraine has really shown what countermeasures work and what don’t.
I was thinking about 100ft before the pellets lose enough energy for the drone’s fans to change trajectory up close. Would be interested to see how trap shooters with deer slugs fair.
Rednecks have already proven that is hard bordering on impossible to safely shoot down a drone. Short of using drone-specific countermeasures, you might as well be using a butterfly net.
There is drone countermeasure stuff being developed and deployed, but its use has to be made legal first. The law doesn’t allow the military to shoot down random things that are not an immediate threat. People love to act like this is ridiculous and a scandal, but considering that tiny drones haven’t really been a problem for decades (and aren’t actually that big of a deal RN), I thinks its reasonable to take a moment and develop procedures…
The article mentions failed jamming attempts.
I guess it is easy to jam civilian drones, but more sophisticated military ones probably have systems to navigate without a constant signal connection. i guess once in place and knowing the last heading, returning “home” should be rather easy to automate.
Does buckshot not work?
Apparently not well enough. There’s enough videos online of people trying and failing to shoot at drones that it’s a sort of well-proven fact that until a drone is VERY close, like 30-40 feet is my guess, it’s out of buckshot range. The war in Ukraine has really shown what countermeasures work and what don’t.
I was thinking about 100ft before the pellets lose enough energy for the drone’s fans to change trajectory up close. Would be interested to see how trap shooters with deer slugs fair.
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