“The proper way to down drones is with other pusher prop drones. Using commercial grade smartphone 50 megapixel cameras the triple lens kind that have low light and shortwave IR night vision modes. Using the processors and gyros and magnetometer of a smartphone and also the 5G NR radio module for realtime comms basically take a low end smartphone out of its case minus it's battery and wire it to the drones power supply. AI software to pick the enemy drop out of the sky or against the earth surface background and plot an intercept course. Once close have a 6 barrel or better yet a revolver single barrel.shotgun shooting TSS(tungsten super shot)@ 18 gram/cm^3 denser than depleted uranium a #1(4mm) size where a single pellet can full penetrate deer sized animals. A 2oz 3.5” mag 12 gauge load at 10 yards would smash a drone's electronics or control surfaces to bits. Then drone kills cost $10 the cost of a TSS shell and the flight time cost of a recoverable drone. Make it gas powered , rear pusher prop, and launch and land them off a truck bed catapult with.A two wire hanging snag line like we do Scan Eagle drones. Easy peasy.”
Is this the way the U.S. military is taking out drones today? It sounds more aspirational than operational.