Footage shows a besieged Russian trench in which three soldiers are trying to hide beneath a pile of garbage. A Ukrainian FPV drone flies low and slow, searching the area for targets, at which point it discovers the hidden troops and attacks.

The strike results in a fire ball and the Russian soldiers are forced from their hiding spot and sent running down the trench. One man is more wounded than the others and collapses.

While not applicable in all cases, this incident shows that a squad-designated shotgunner would have been easily able to swat the low hovering drone out of the sky. Adding a shotgun to the squad level would force drone pilots to strike faster and start their attack approach from further distances, in theory, resulting in forced, less accurate hits.

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