A quick Google search shows birdshot has an effective rang on the order of 40 - 50 yards.
Show me a shotgun with an effective range and I’ll show you a drone with a higher flight deck.
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styxem@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoA quick Google search shows birdshot has an effective rang on the order of 40 - 50 yards. Now, you still have to be competant with a shotgun, but the public perception of shotguns is generally skewed. They have a much tighter spread and longer range than movies and games would have one believe.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
groet@feddit.org 3 days ago
This is about drones that are cheap and can shoot you with a bullet. Sure a +1M$ drone will kill you from behind the horizon, but a repurposed consumer drone operates on the same ranges as handheld guns and as such could be shot by a handheld gun. If you can hit it, which is why you use a shotgun to increase your ods
JayDee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s not necessarily with a bullet. Most improvised attack drones drop explosive payloads, since it’s both simpler to set up and simpler to use. Outfitting a drone with a gun takes making a complicated system for aiming it, while a payload drone just needs some 3d-printed parts, some extra wiring, and usually just a single servo.
grue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are the cheap drones really shooting people with bullets? I was under the impression they just had small explosives strapped to them and were single-use.
JayDee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
you’re correct, they do not strap guns to improvised attack drones. they’re not necessarily single-use either, though. A kamikaze drone will detonate its payload while its still attached, which is an option. There is plenty of footage of IADs which use a servo to just physically drop a payload onto targets from above, and those could potentially be used over and over. I think the kamikaze version is able to be more effective, for a variety of reasons, but both versions seem to be seeing use.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Show me a drone that can kill me outside of a shotgun’s range.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m guessing you mean just the disposable kind of drones popularized in Ukraine? We’ve been dropping hellfire missles from Reaper drones at 10,000+ feet for a couple of decades now.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Go to YouTube and search “Ukrainian drone drops bomb” and you’ll find tons of them. Like this one where the soldiers had no chance of hitting the drone.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Depends on the choke. A 12 gauge full choke turkey gun can probably put a pretty tight pattern that range, but it’s gonna work better with bigger shot. If you want super fine shot and a full pattern, you aren’t shooting that far.
JayDee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
GarandThumb did some tests in a video a while back. IIRC he did both choked and not, along with different types of shot and slugs. everything but birdshot was pretty effective out to a couple dozen yards? I’ll track it down and drop a link after I’ve rewatched.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Sounds good. Looking forward to it
JayDee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
prior comment edited for ya.