S. Koreans practice killing drone swarms

An air defense battery with the South Korean air force conducted an exercise to test defensive techniques against FPV drone swarms. The exercise show in the video pitted gatling guns against a swarm of fifty drones. The results were not promising as at least half the drones, which hovered in place and made easy targets, survived the initial barrage. It is unknown whether the guns were aided by a radar or IR targeting system. I have argued for some time that western militaries, including the United States, must develop anti-drone capabilities which are layered, overlapping, and which protect all combat arms and service support elements. A system which can produce a large volume of fire, like the ones shown, is an integral part of such a defensive network, but those guns should have some semi-autonomous targeting capability and should be integrated with other systems as well as with passive defensive measures.

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