Rheinmetall Air Defence – Skynex truck-mounted engaging drone swarm

Rheinmetall – Der integrierte Technologiekonzern · 5.7M views · 2021-11-10 · 2:07

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A Rheinmetall promo clip of its truck-mounted Skynex air defence system engaging a swarm of eight small drones with a 35mm revolver gun.

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Used as an example of existing anti-drone-swarm defences in threads on drone warfare.

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Military history & warfare Robotics

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koonsolo · 2025-06 · Reference
Oh please there are plenty of solutions, see [VIDEO] for example. Bullets that explode into pellets thanks to an internal radar, etc.
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ThrowawayR2 · 2023-09 · Reference
-brrt- Drone swarm, what drone swarm? [VIDEO] And this is simply the first iteration of such systems. Drones are slow (slower than WW2 aircraft), short ranged, and not particularly stealthy. Improving any of those aspects raises the price significantly, defeating the point of cheap drones. They are a threat but not as magical as some seem to imagine.
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scotty79 · 2023-09 · Reference
Have you seen modern anti-drone defence? [VIDEO] Basically a cannon that fires sort of smart bullets that contain shape charge that aims at the drone as it gets close to it and detonantes. Also targets are smartly assigned so you can shoot down small swarm of drones with a short burst from the cannon.
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