>It’s been a year of full-blown drone warfare
>there have been zero (0) punt guns put into service
>no one even trying a normal shotgun with birdshot
Do they like having grenades dropped on them? Where the hell are all the shotguns? They’re fighting in trenches and regularly need to shoot birds out of the sky and it’s like the gun invented for those things doesn’t exist. Why tho
>Shooting a drone at 300m is exactly the same as shooting a flock of birds at 100m
Come on anon think for a moment before making a thread
a lot of drone are absolutely within hittable range with a shotgun and it’d be a lot more effective than spraying an ak at them. Particularly with suicide drones. And if shotguns got normalized then that would require all the drones to stay farther out.
Pretty sure they don't fly at 300m when carrying payload (well, they can, but their range will suffer greatly so i don't think they will do that). More like 100 at most
t. Mavic user
>More like 100 at most
we've seen enough drops to know that they do in fact fly at >200m. unless you know something about recent changes in g that you haven't told us about.
Like I said they technically can, but to do so you'll have to be suicidally close ( something like 1 km to the target if you want to be absolutely sure your drone can actually arrive there and have time to spot the target, aim, drop, confirm the hit, and return safely)
Drones last on average about 3 missions so I doesn't think guaranteeing safety is the concern.
I've seen enough /shotgungeneral/ threads to know that some anons swear they could hit a human sized target beyond 200m with pellets, we should send them to the front lines to help
Couldn't someone shoot the bombs out of the air mid flight? seems like it would be easier than shooting clays, if anything.
I just talked to my friend who rotated off the front, he is an officer and works closely with the drone operators. He told me 1km, 1.5km is the max they can reliably fly for missions because at further ranges the weaker signal is more susceptible to countermeasures and anti drone guns (at least where they are) and they often don't return so you are not far off from the truth. A kilometer in trench warfare is more than plenty to drop a vog on someone's head.
>He told me 1km, 1.5km is the max they can reliably fly for missions
We have teams who use external ground antennas and THREE batteries on Mavic 3 that fly over 30km and back for recon missions. Standard Mavic 3 usually flies to 3-5km for recond and artillery correction usually. For drops though, it's usually within 2km
EW is not that big of an issue, to be honest. It just disables GPS and the drone can't stabilize itself against the wind. Even the anti-drone guns don't disable the drone right away. You start noticing lags in the signal and just skedaddle
You need dronehunter-drones. Small loitering drones in flocks above your position that target any bomber-sized drone within 100m of your position. Armed with strings to drop in rotors or something like that. Solar-powered if possible so they can stay up there.
>punt gun
why not a belt fed 8ga firing flechettes? would also be useful against human wave attacks, as well as generally awesome.
It is pretty surprising that no counter-measure innovations have appeared on the battlefield. It could be that these don't actually constitute that big of a problem on the battlefield. Maybe the total number of casualties to these are negligible.
I have been assuming this. Wtih a few vehicle exceptions they are still just dropping individual grenades on individual soldiers 1 at a time and it's a big big war.
I've been wondering the same thing. Slavshits repeatedly getting fragged by Mavics seems like it could be solved by a 12-gauge with birdshot. Surely those things can't be that durable? Hoping we start seeing specialized Fudd units armed with Real Tree Maverick 88's from Walmart to aid in Air Defense.
These drones are dropping most of the time from 150 to 300m. Not even buckshot has a reliable enough spread at those ranges to hit anything most of the time. Birdshot? Get outta here. The camera perspective is lying to you. They aren't at 75m much less 30, where birdshot could accomplish anything. Maybe... just perhaps.... the reasons you lot aren't seeing shotguns being used is because they wouldn't work like you think they would.
Honestly, an American 180 would probably be the ideal.
A 100m + hit on a drone that's only still for a moment is a lot to ask. Having a shotgun on hand, knowing the drone is overhead, is pretty impractical as 95% pf these drop videos show the targets are unaware before the impact. And the counter will merely be that vogs are dropped from 200m instead, totally negating any shotgun. That's why you don't see them being used by either side. There's a a shitload of duck guns in Ukraine. It's not used because it's a pure dream
Why couldn't you shoot the bomb?
Hence the fucken punt gun
Put grapeshot in it I dont give a shit
You're a fucking moron. Piss off back to 4chan and practice your spam tactics there.
Just pretend that there’s a drone hovering meter off the ground and that thing is fucked