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?

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Not sure how much is militariaganda, but there was a dude slinging one of these around during a couple of big diplomatic events in the past couple of years, so probably partially effective at the very least.

    Oh and there’s also whatever aircraft mounted variant that the americans used when they invaded venezuela, the one that made Maduro’s guards “bleed from the eyes, ears and nose”, while describing feeling like someone had parked a car on their head.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Oh and there’s also whatever aircraft mounted variant that the americans used when they invaded venezuela, the one that made Maduro’s guards “bleed from the eyes, ears and nose”, while describing feeling like someone had parked a car on their head.

      to me that’s shades of the devices that caused Havana Syndrome all over again