François Fleuret, a Meta AI researcher and University of Geneva professor, suggested on X that shotguns could gain an edge against FPV drone swarms by adding a camera and computer-vision module that calculates trajectories and only permits a shot when the predicted hit probability is high, requiring both manual pull and algorithmic approval.
@francoisfleuret The worst part is that this doesn't do much Some Russian guy took down 7 with a shotgun in one go. Must have been a generational genius marksman. The 8th still blew up his position. You can throw a lot of drones at every guy in the kill zone.
Fighting drones is hard.
No information covers latency targets, false-positive handling, hardware weight, or integration with existing firearms, leaving the gap between concept and battlefield use explicit.
The suggestion ties directly to videos and accounts of infantry struggling with high-volume drone attacks, where even skilled shotgun use can be overwhelmed by sheer numbers.
Users in the replies dismiss shotgun defenses against AI drone swarms as inadequate, sarcastically relying on luck rather than scalable math.
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And the one-at-a-time human-controlled drone is a faint echo of the AI-controlled swarm.
@francoisfleuret The worst part is that this doesn't do much Some Russian guy took down 7 with a shotgun in one go. Must have been a generational genius marksman. The 8th still blew up his position. You can throw a lot of drones at every guy in the kill zone.
@francoisfleuret At this point you might as well just deploy an auto-turret and remove the infantryman I think such turrets on legged/wheeled drones will proliferate soon but yes, there are better firearm options too tbh Yolka works better than shotguns
@teortaxesTex Only hope IMO would be an "auto-trigger" with computer vision: A camera on the shotgun computes trajectory and fires only if trigger + it estimates that you are good.
@teortaxesTex Only hope IMO would be an "auto-trigger" with computer vision: A camera on the shotgun computes trajectory and fires only if trigger + it estimates that you are good.
@francoisfleuret The worst part is that this doesn't do much Some Russian guy took down 7 with a shotgun in one go. Must have been a generational genius marksman. The 8th still blew up his position. You can throw a lot of drones at every guy in the kill zone.
@francoisfleuret @teortaxesTex then just send 2 drones from different directions ?
@francoisfleuret drones as a solved math problem vs. one dude with a shotgun and a prayer
that 7:1 ratio isnt scaling the way they think