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Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook by somenameforme on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:28AM (#44807641)
They do. There's a lot of videos of them being taken out with birdshot. I also saw one video about modding underbarrel grenade launchers to fire a shotgun cartridge.
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Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:56AM (#44809062)
Those got lucky, lucky in that they detected them in the first place and that they were able to land a shot.
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Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook by red-iron-pine on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:06PM (#44828151)
yeah the window for a lot of those FPV drones is small. I'd still rather have the shotgun, but luck is a factor.

also doesn't help for the ones that are 300m straight up dropping bombs -- no buckshot will work that high up. maybe 50m at best, if you're very, very lucky with dispersion.

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Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook by esseph on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:58AM (#44807824)
A lot of US under barrel launchers have "factory" buckshot rounds.

M79/M203/M320/etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M576_40_mm_grenade

AK would be a different story, but Ukraine has a lot of 3d printers and those shells are one time use and not hard to make.

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