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The Army wants to use bullets, mortars, and artillery to take out small drones

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The Army wants to use bullets, mortars, and artillery to take out small drones How existing systems are being shaped to shoot at tiny targets. HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—Army leaders often say they want to stop using million-dollar missiles to shoot down thousand-dollar drones. One of the solutions may be cheap munitions the service already has. While the Army is leading an interagency task force to sour...
The Army’s push to repurpose existing munitions for counter-drone operations reflects a pragmatic response to the asymmetry of modern warfare, where low-cost drones pose significant threats to expensive defense systems. The strongest version of this narrative is that it represents a necessary adaptation—leveraging proximity fuzes and legacy rounds to create scalable, cost-effective solutions without over-reliance on high-tech (and high-cost) alternatives. This approach acknowledges the limitatio...