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?

  • HobbitFoot English
    4·
    3 days ago

    It seems more that drone combat is relatively new and we haven’t seen the iteration for drone combat that other weapons systems have had.

    It could be guns, drones, signal interference, or something else entirely.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 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·
        3 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 English
        2·
        3 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.