Ukrainian soldiers train to shoot down drones in motion using a shotgun – footage from the training range of the 242nd Training Center. June 2025



by GermanDronePilot

20 comments

  1. I can imagine the russian equivalent as Ivan with his fishing rod and a mock drone hovering at head height walks towards the new recruits armed with shotguns.

    Okay, who wants to replace Ivan and be the drone now ?

  2. That’s a pretty ingenious way to train on this task tbh

  4. There are special tracer shotgun rounds available which allow for visual confirmation of flight path of shotgun pellets, this would likely increase the benefit from training ([Fiocchi Cyalume](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39505507) tracer shotgun shells).

  6. There has gotta be a better way?

    What about autonomous drone interceptors? Carried on a backpack?

  11. The music makes it sound like an episode of Mythbusters

  13. Gotta give it to the AFU, they are incredibly inventive. Definite Britain-in-WWII vibes.

  14. I feel like putting a guy in the back of a pick up and driving through a field with a training drone following them would be a better, more realistic way to approach this

  17. You can argue that they invented a new type of sport shooting in the process of making this method of training. That’s friggin awesome.

  18. This is almost the same method the British flying core used to train machinegunners during ww1…

  19. shot all linked together so it expands a web to improve the entanglement factor plus increasing the chances of triggering the main fuse and detonating the drone further away from its target

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