Shotgun shells are cheaper...
The US Army recently demonstrated a prototype weapon which fires special projectiles at UAVs to damage them.
These projectiles can be steered on approach to the drone, which is tracked on the ground with radar.
The article is written by a reporter with the understanding of a cave man.
Don’t they switch to autopilot when they lose communication. And how protected are they from jamming and noise? Seems like all of this would have been considered in the design.
However, there are probably different levels of complexity and cost. Cheap low end drones have no protection. Expensive high end drones have lots of protection plus other techie advantages.
Does not stop drones that are running a pre-programmed course.