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It seems like it was hovering, so not a moving target like a clay, but still a good shot. I'm willing to bet that shooter has a good amount of combat experience.

It often seems like the SOP is not intended to minimize casualties.

Hell Yes!

Korea-Vietnam vets learned valuable lessons the hard way. They should NOT be forgotten.

Automatic shotguns are usually more trouble than they're worth. I think that seems to be the time-tested wisdom. I mean if you could hunt with no sporting rules, what would you use?

A slug

russia announced about 4-5 months back, they were switching on the AI's for most of their drone weapons, with no human oversight. Everything but the FPV's are all 100% A.I. run and operated now. The russians just launch them and let them go... A.K.A "loitering munitions" Of course they can jump in at any time, but for the most part, they don't anymore as the enamies drones home in on the command transmition signals and counter back within minutes of the broadcasts.

Their t-90 and newer land stuff is all wired up for autonomous AI as well. In fact the AI are handling most of the fire control now on those systems. and they are deploying a vast array of land based combat drones in the last few months. (urans and markers and a bunch of pack/supply type drones and of last week, the first sighting of some sort of atv sized/kamakasi/high explosive type drone)

The ruskies also have a massive interconnected combat system similar to the west's AGIS system. All weapons and recon across the entire combat theater are hooked up to a central C&C system that the A.I. draws from and updates. and the ruskies have a global spy/recon satellite network, equal too or better then the west's, that feeds info to the C&C net


We are actually there with this stuff, but most wont or cant believe it...

With all the AI and mesh nets they're baking into everything you might not be far off. I'd bet that AI will be running factories within 10 years, probably turning out drones among other things.

It's harder to hit anything with the AK style shotguns because the sight line No comb) is so short. It's great fun though in that if you break the clay soon enough, you now have 2 or more targets (that is, the broken clay flying through the air) which you can hit.

fun fact: the ukies use race drones with glocks on them to hunt through the ruins and rubble.

the ruskies have a bigger drone "the babacha" that they are mounting modded aks on to go hunting with.

Recoil of high powered rifles is quite high, I would guess, so a tiny drone would be unable to fire accurately.

Like a helicopter?

I imagine drones have to be small and optics, guns, and stabilizers are big and heavy.

But maybe someone smarter than I could build it.