Benelli Now Marking Anti-Drone Variant of their M4 Shotgun
While it seems to lack any really novel new features it definitely is interesting seeing major manufacturers pivoting with FPV drones taking over the modern battlefield.
While it seems to lack any really novel new features it definitely is interesting seeing major manufacturers pivoting with FPV drones taking over the modern battlefield.
A few years ago a Benelli M4 was like $2300. So prolly more like $3500 for the drone dropper version.
Looks like it comes with new rear sight, a forward optic mounted on a full length picatinny rail, and a modified choke, so if its a grand more, that seems to be roughly in line with those new parts.
Their other models are still MSRPing at 2.4k or 2.3k, going off of Benelli's website.
According to the manufacturer, the uniqueness of the AI version is that, thanks to a modified choke, the buckshot can be effective even at distances of 50 meters and beyond, maintaining a high level of speed and energy.
Even by the exceedingly lax standards of the computer world's marketers when it comes to using the term "AI", this one seems like a bit of a stretch.
But, you can put a modified choke in any shotgun that lets you swap the choke. I just bought one a few months ago, they're like $30.
This question comes up a fair bit I might need to edit the sidebar to be more clear.
This is a community for fans of the YouTube channel/website Forgotten Weapons run by Ian McCollum. The channel typically shows him telling the history about a particular firearm then taking it apart to show any interesting mechanical features. Or highlighting how they might be otherwise interesting.
Typically posts here will be about the history or engineering of firearms. Although given the size of Lemmy and there not being other communities, it's also be open to non firearm weapons discussion (like swords).
It seems a fair number of the members of this community have actually joined not knowing about the original channel over the months.
This particular post is adjacent to that channel's trend of coverage on how small arms are being used in Ukraine. (Given the heavy use of FPV drones)
I didn't catch your response until after I deleted my comment. And I deleted my comment because I read the sidebar and saw this sort of thing was explicitly permitted and I'm an idiot.
Thank you very much for your detailed and enlightening response