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Russian spy drones are flying over Germany: The Bundeswehr cannot shoot them down
(www.euronews.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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Can't or won't?
I read the article. The can but wont. They cant agree whether they are allowed to do it and if so whether it should be the military or police shooting them down. The TLDR is that they just dont really care.
That's the beaurecratic shitshow I'd expect from Germany.
Rednecks have already proven that is hard bordering on impossible to safely shoot down a drone. Short of using drone-specific countermeasures, you might as well be using a butterfly net.
The article mentions failed jamming attempts.
I guess it is easy to jam civilian drones, but more sophisticated military ones probably have systems to navigate without a constant signal connection. i guess once in place and knowing the last heading, returning "home" should be rather easy to automate.
There is drone countermeasure stuff being developed and deployed, but its use has to be made legal first. The law doesn't allow the military to shoot down random things that are not an immediate threat. People love to act like this is ridiculous and a scandal, but considering that tiny drones haven't really been a problem for decades (and aren't actually that big of a deal RN), I thinks its reasonable to take a moment and develop procedures...
Does buckshot not work?
Apparently not well enough. There's enough videos online of people trying and failing to shoot at drones that it's a sort of well-proven fact that until a drone is VERY close, like 30-40 feet is my guess, it's out of buckshot range. The war in Ukraine has really shown what countermeasures work and what don't.
I was thinking about 100ft before the pellets lose enough energy for the drone's fans to change trajectory up close. Would be interested to see how trap shooters with deer slugs fair.