Loads from YouTube only after you press playShotgun drone defense drill: SilencerCo vs. soda bottles on a zipline
Key points: Shotgun drone defense drill
- The setup stands in for small drones: 2-liter soda bottles run down a 150-foot zipline toward the shooter, because legal counsel advised against using real drones.
- Scoring is survival: if any part of the bottle lands in the shooter's circle, the shooter is counted dead.
- Every run starts with the shooter's back to the target, so the drill measures how fast they can turn, find the target and get hits.
- Hitting the bottle is not enough, because debris from a close hit still falls on the shooter; one shooter's plan was to engage as far out as possible.
- The hardest round starts with the breach open and a shell in hand, so the shooter has to load, mount the gun and engage before the bottle arrives.
- The crew's own verdict was roughly a 65% chance of surviving a real drone, and zero for the range officer.
About this Tactics and Training video
Shotgun drone defense drill from SilencerCo. Legal counsel advised against shooting real drones, so 2-liter soda bottles ride a 150-foot zipline instead. Each shooter starts facing away, turns on the signal, finds the bottle and engages with birdshot. Any piece that lands in the shooter's circle counts as a death. A harder round starts with an empty gun and a shell in hand. It is staged for fun, but it tests the same turn, find and engage problem a shotgun faces against a small incoming drone.
Transcript: Shotgun drone defense
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Oh, we're getting taught. I can feel it. >> [music] >> We wanted to do a drone simulation video of shooting drones with shotguns. Per our legal counsel, we were advised to do so with something else. So, we've decided to a 150-ft zipline with 2-L bottles of pop. We are going to shoot them with shotguns and any part of the 2-L bottle lands in the shooter's circle, that's a death. […]
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