A brutal mashup video released by Ukraine's security service SBU Alpha group shows a number of FPV kamikaze drone strikes targeting Russian infantry soldiers.

The SBU claims that 500 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in a single weeks as a result of these loitering munition strikes.

While defense contractors continue to develop and test high-tech solutions to the drone problem, many of the actual successful mitigation techniques we have seen at are rudimentary in nature i.e. nets, and stick structures.

I would think it would be standard operating procedure at this point for each infantry squad or platoon to have a designated shotgunner, equipped with high-density tungsten waterfowl loads, whose primary purpose is to engage these incoming threats.

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Will Killmore is a US Army combat infantry veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Following his time in service, he successfully pursued a certificate of journalism and has been a blogger for Funker530 since 2014. Follow Will’s bad takes on Twitter