Shotguns are back on the battlefield

The editorial staff of the Defence Blog publication draws attention to the fact that it was the Ukrainian Defense Forces that were among the first to guess to introduce shotguns into the system of organized defense against drones.

Moreover, it is indicated that the 413th Separate Raid Battalion of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Troops has launched a special program to destroy drones with shotguns.

Several hundred Ukrainian soldiers completed the course in just seven months.

The logic is simple: the spread of shotgun shots increases the chances of hitting a small, fast-moving drone in the final second before impact, when other countermeasures fail.

Marco Angelelli, a shooting instructor and president of the FITAV Commission for Relations with the Armed Forces, reacted to this Ukrainian ingenuity.

Angelelli also officially confirmed that the Italian armed forces are already receiving the first Benelli M4 AI Drone Guard rifles.