This reminds me of this interview I watched 20 or 30 years ago. It was a guy (Canadian maybe?) who was developing a super cheap powered hang glider (for lack of better words) with machine guns on it. The idea was to make something so cheap, you can overwhelm fighter jets.

I remember that interview, the guy's name is Bob Diemert and his aircraft was the Defender. The NFB made a documentary:

https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2009/07/27/how-to-fighter-airplane-...

Here's an article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/famed-aviator-rememb...

Wouldn't a horde of that be prone to a preprogrammed airburst shell?

I'm still waiting for coilgun artillery to take off.

No need for charges to fire, rail itself can be relatively unprecise, as long as the shell head can glide bomb the flight trajectory to target.

Rest of the shell body could be a small distribution charge and some vacuum compressed peeble.

Or just do away with traditional artillery altogether and electrically gun up small gun cotton glider drones, that circle above target areas until they receive a drop and kill order.

Imagine fpv drone, it flies recording the input from a deterministic start point. Now you record the operator input. Not only can you replay that input, shielding a bird from em, you can correct in a simulation and repeat fire that on repeat.