South Korea promotes anti-aircraft guns for drone defense
defence-blog.com
South Korea’s defense community is placing renewed attention on anti-aircraft guns as an effective response to the growing threat posed by mass drone attacks on modern battlefields. The shift reflects increasing concern among military planners that traditional missile-based air defense

Is it issues detecting and tracking? Seems like radar guided gun systems should shred shaheeds but perhaps I’m missing something.

I can see the difficulties tracking quad copter / fpv drones… anyone have insight?

  • mojofrododojoOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    valid… and if they focus everything on air we’ll have ground and subterranean drones to contend with shortly.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      subterranean drones

      Now I am imagining a mole drone slowly inching his way across the battlefield at night and sticking up like a little inconspicuous periscope type solar panel during the day.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We already have some forms of ground based drones. I don’t see subterranean drones any time soon given the state of art in various forms of excavation.