New intelligent sighting system lets British forces SMASH aerial drones with a rifle 

😂😂 I see what you did there.

CAN YOU SEE CAPTAIN BLACKADDER ANYWHERE IN THIS COURTROOM?!

DAAAAARLING!!!!!!!

@@GrzegorzBrzeczyszczykiewicz420 Thats Him Thats the man! ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhhahh ahaahhhhhh

Catch the pigeon, catch the pigeon! Mutley heheheheh

Great for hackers

Small arms are not going to be very reliable against a moving drone 100m+ away unless you give it a digital fire control system linked with a millimeter wave radar for tracking.

​@@Ungood-jl5epradar or visual? It likes movement so maybe it's a camera recognition system? Surprised we don't see these automated as protective turret systems, like those in use in gaming for decades. The technology exists.

I doubt it. Infantry aren't going to be whizzing past overhead like a drone. There's already optics out there that provide a ballistics solution to the user for infantry.

@@Google_Does_Evil_Now I'm sure different types of visual tracking could be made to work as well. The automated turret is kind of what I meant by 'digital FCS,' taking the human out of the loop. No matter what kind of aiming system the rifle uses, ground troops tracking and engaging drones with small arms is going to be max difficulty. Something like the one in the video is absolutely better than nothing for sure, but it's less than ideal.

@@Ungood-jl5ep did you see the Ukrainians are using drones fitted with machine guns now? They are using them for attacking troops. No doubt this is the future. Hunter killer drones.

The Force was with them...

... because it happened a long time ago! In a made up galaxy far far away!!

Cause the Jedi used the force

Were you that bloke in front of me who was chatting away and missed the start of the movie? ("A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..) 😂 😉

Plot Armour

I fear for flocks of geese when it gets mounted to a machine gun😂

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Whether it works or not, you'll definitely be paying for it and it'll definitely be getting donated to Zelensky with a nice backhander for all involved 😂

@@BrownBabyJesusthat doesn’t matter. Any conflict we get involved in (and in my 36 years, the US is always in a conflict somewhere in the world), we will be facing drone threats. Any tech we develop for this war is directly applicable to current and near future deployments. I’m a FPV hobby guy so it kind of makes me sad my toys are also used for war, but the gov developing effective countermeasure systems should also take some of the regulatory heat off us hobbyists. If they have the tech to effectively stop bad actor drones, they won’t be so nervous about us peaceful hobbyists. At least that’s what I hope. 😅

@@BrownBabyJesus or, your friendly local army gets to try it in real combat situations and reports back to us how well it works and what tactics they developed. Save us time, money and man power.

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1 Laser and 5 of these they think thats enough for war. Meanwhile equipment attirtion and ammo usage in a conventional war is nuts and no european power is prepared for that haha

But only 2 people are trained and one of them is non deployable.

Don't be silly, at least one per regt, so about 10. ish. For now. Probably go down a bit after Liebour backtracks on its commitment to increase defence spending and actually cut it,so there's that....

demonstrating shooting down a drone takes a lot of money and coordination, it would be nice to have but i don't think it's mandatory

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It helps because hitting a target 100m away with a M4 with all the gear on perhaps exhausted is very difficult. When you have a system like that it adjusts your ballistics and makes you a very efficient shooter

@@almyor yeah I’m aware of what the system does. The video explains that, what I’m saying is that drones are too fast and too reactive for something like this. There was a documentary on the front lines in Ukraine recently and they were just unable to react to the constant pressure from drones. They were so focused on the enemy in front that they were always too late when a dropper drone was above. As for FPV drones, no chance. The solution is not glamorous, it’s just literally a squad member with a semi auto shotgun filled with birdshot. That’s the real solution.

Its a good idea but poorly executed. The sight is bulky and cumbersome and it takes away the ability of the shooter to actually fire the weapon until it releases control of the firing mechanism.

@@Hoozpoppin the cost of the scope v cost of drone means it would NEED to be every soldier £500 for a drone, wonder how much the scope will cost 🤣£20,000?

​@@Hoozpoppinyou can just turn it off. and lots of less advanced military scopes are more bulky than this.

Exploding round that explode at drone altitude? So you want programable rounds in a rifle?

@@myowndata its called a fuse like in a FLAK round used since ww2

@@MachinedFace88ttv yes, but dont you need bigger rounds for that? The explosion of 5.56 somewhere in the air wont be very effectiv, i guess

@@myowndata IDK against your typical quadcopter (think your DJI offerings on the market), I imagine your 5.56 with some sort of shrapnel round vs flimsy plastic rotors could be quite effective. not as effective as larger rounds of course, but would probably do the job.

@@myowndata I think just implementing the sight system on a shotgun would probably be more cost effective lol.

We got drones incoming! "I got this. PULL!"

maybe that wouldn't have enough range or stopping power? and they already use 5.56 rifles, it's nice to not have to get significantly different weapons out there.

@@adog3129 against an FPV type drone, I think bark chippings tossed by hand would have enough stopping power. All you need is to damage one set of rotor blades and you're safe (assuming it doesn't then simply fall on you).

@@kimjonglongdong3158 range though? and what if the drone is actually designed for combat?

@@adog3129 The thing with FPV/"Kamikaze" type drones, is that they are very small, very cheap, and best used en masse. While Ukraine seems to have mostly switched to purpose built drones as opposed to repurposed civilian drones for "kamikaze" missions from what I've seen, they are still very fragile bits of kit. The fact is if you go about trying to make these drones stronger and more survivable, they loose possibly their most attractive characteristic, their price tag. The rotor blades on these drones can be snapped off by clipping the thinnest of tree branches or even leaves if you're unlucky. They are highly unsuitable to anything except clear and low low wind conditions, again because they are so light and fragile. in short, even though they are often "made for combat", they aren't much more survivable than civilian counterparts. As for range of a shotgun, with this type of sight attached, I reckon you'd get 40-50m with very high success rate, maybe up to 100m depending on if you adopt specialised ammunition as well as carefully selected components like chokes. Google reckons bird shot is effective out to about 45m. Is a bird stronger or weaker than the blades of an FPV drone, IDK. Could you develop a similarly cheap ammunition that works at longer ranges specifically for anti-drone tasking, probably?

No. The term has been around a long time.

@@meme4one But it's still babblespeak.

@@delcat8168 no. Li spent most of their time on foot or light role vehicles. Mechanised or armoured infantry or indeed some cav, when they dismount, they can all be in dismounted close combat.

I think Dismounted Close Combat are the troops on the ground who close with and destroy the enemy as opposed to the Fire Support echelons who engage with heavier weapons from further away.

Is this what happens when the RAF Regiment gets involved, it goes from dismounts to community.

You turn it on and off. On only when trying to shoot down a drone. If it gives the user a 70% chance of hitting a drone first shot thats amazing.

@@nickwilliams7867 It is too slow for close combat and what if there's a split second freeze. It does not work in close combat with multiple threats emerging! It sounds great, the flaw is the trigger inhibit, that WILL kill our Soldiers!

@@MichaelKng-fk5jk No it won't. If you're in close combat you don't turn the damn thing on. That's like saying "These ACOG sights are going to kill our soldiers because they aren't meant for up close".

I think the key will be piggy backing a decent mini reflex sight on top of it.

@@MichaelKng-fk5jk Most of the drone attacks are not within 2-400 yards where soldiers would be fighting to their front. They are on troops further back. If a soldier sees or hears a drone coming for them, having a system to defend themselves is better than nothing. It would be virtually impossible to hit a drone with a rifle fitted with a standard sight. This system gives them a 70% chance of hitting it with the first shot.

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Beat me to it.....

It does. It says "Bang! Bang! You're dead!"

Gunnar!

@@james.telfer Thank you. And none of this is Rogue Trooper level stuff. I mean, Rogue Trooper was an English creation. But a massive military contract apparently needs to be spent overseas on optics because god forbid a British company could make a functioning lens with an attached computer...

The gun was the encoded engram of a soldier genetically engineered and forced to fight. It was called Gunnar, in a typically 80s fashion. I miss 2000AD. It was arguably the last time anyone in the UK had an original idea that wasn't sponsored by a US company. LIKE OUR ****ing guns. If only Britain retained the ability to make a precision engineered tube. But I used to work at Royal Ordnance. So we don't make guns any more because no one gave a **** and all the old boys who used to work there no longer gave two hoots. Immigrants did not make Britain **** - that was on us white people.

@@kingozymandias8370 boooooo. Good luck not having one.

Probably one person section

@@BroadHobbyProjects I would have guessed two similar to UGL employment allowing 1 for each fire team

Platoon level. But that hopefully doesn't mean one per platoon.

wdym fourth attempt?

Meanwhile, some poor squaddie in a combat zone is getting shot at and the gadget decides to update the software

@@CanadianBallistics *This device has been disabled as the payment card linked has expired*

It won't work, think how fast an FPV drone is.

@@latch9781 lol

@@PraetorAirsoftIt actually works better if the drone is moving around frantically. But the human operator needs to be more skilled.

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He didn't qualify at what distance either.

Shotguns have extremely limited range.

Good luck taking out the fpv kamikaza ones..

@@TriMeX1987 Did you not even understand what I wrote?!!!!

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@@terenceballands1374 yeah I did.. So you take it out... and it spotted you while you took it out... Now the second loitering comes followed with and fpv..

@@TriMeX1987 You don't seem to understand how it actually works!!!!

Sounds about right for military hardware only sold to national militaries, with the first generation and little competition. Even better civilian optical rifle scopes can easily cost more than the rifle itself. The bulk of the R&D of every single normal rifle scope today was already done decades ago. They are all just variations of it now. The thing in this video, though, would have required developing the hardware and software from scratch, pretty much. Furthermore, military equipment is always twice as expensive, or more, than regular civilian stuff because it will have to withstand manhandling. But yes, it's expensive. If it works well, though, it could be worth the price. Compared to a soldier's life, £20,000 is nothing.

It works with ground targets too

The Indian navy had bought this sight years ago iirc

Nobody in the army nowadays, so whats the point in promoting him? 1,000 generals and 2 soilders 🤪

@@mohammedisaa9952 He is RAF Regiment. not army!! Nice Bloke, but a bit Tim, nice but dim!!!

Ya think they haven't tried that?

search for > "SMASH to counter ground and UAS threats" this tech has been around for a couple of years. Better research and not to make comments to prove u know not what u are talking about.

@@staticmin3 1) I make no claims about myself, 2) my criticism of this video's lack of evidence stand, 3) your "SMASH to counter ground and UAS threats" is the manufacturer's marketing, not independent testing. What is interesting it that this went from one lazy video by BFBS, to the manufacturer being unable to point to independent testing of their product.

@@staticmin3 1) I make no claims about myself, 2) my criticism of this video's lack of evidence stands, 3) your "SMASH to counter ground and UAS threats" is just the manufacturer's marketing, What is interesting is how this went from a lazy video by BFBS, to the manufacturer being unable to point to an independent test report on their product.

​@nickhockings443 do you think the British Army just accept manufacturer's claims?!! The Small-arms School Corps and Infantry Trials & Developement Unit would have tested this to death before it was adopted.

@@andysavill8580 This would be the same British Army that bought dowsing rods for bomb detection in Iraq ? And took 10 years to fix the faults in the original SA80. And all the other dodgy purchases from chums of govt ministers. I take it you have never tried googling for "arms procurement scandal".

British Forces Broadcasting Service

"British Forces Broadcasting Service" I think

Presenter is simply not fully comfortable in front of a camera.

Do shotguns have magazine clips?

@@Marc_Gagne Magazine clips? What are you on about?

@@ArkadiaEternal War creates innovation. Why live in the past?

But then you’d have to lug around an extra weapon. This fits in with the existing weapon system.

@@Fireclaws10 That’s a fair point. However, the argument you’re making is that it’s okay to sacrifice effectiveness for convenience. In addition, sometimes sections already take shotguns as mission specific equipment so the convenience is minor. Ultimately I’d say it would be better to develop this system for a shotgun for the sake of redundancy and effectiveness. This is because if this system fails… then the section would just be left with just rifles. Whereas if the system was mounted on a shotgun and it fails at least they’ll have a shotgun.

Yup you wouldn’t be able to detect a drone’s approach in the first place without specialized equipment.

I think this is more for drones dropping munitions that hover above you.

Seems like large munitions drones are important to war now. Soo those are no where close to as stealthy and agile as a DJI quad copter. Still important to take out those big flying explosives drones.

Nah man in Gaza you had drones with drop munitions trying to stabilize above your head and you can shoot them down easily with this system

@@almyor will be a failure like like the current british army

The IDF has been using it for a while to shoot down drones quite successfully.

I'd take that bet. I've watched other videos regarding these and they work.

If it works its so good tho. You dont have to carry a dank futuristic looking 40 kilo device

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@@rhanayt you think that thing weighs 40kg your brain must weigh 1gram

Shotgun doesn't have the range or lethality. Shotgun and ECM are extra kit to carry. This just goes on one rifle in the section and would be able to cover the section area. It may not reach out to an observation drone but any drone carrying a warhead would have to come close enough to be killed.

that doesn't funnel money to israel so it's a no go for the UK.