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Don't worry, they fully intend to use drones to wipe out any resistance. I always wondered when we'd live in the terror of the skies like they have in the middle east for two decades now.
Kind of hard to use a handgun or shotgun to deal with a Reaper drone that's nailing you from a mile away.
I wonder how effective at 308 round is to a drone, even just putting a sizable hole in the wing. And that's assuming it's causing at an altitude that's within range.
Seems like there's better ways:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident
Iranian here, it is was revealed that it was sheer luck and an IRGC commander once said that "God sent it for us."
Huh, thanks for the perspective!