Air-to-air drone combat is not very common; at least, videos of "combat encounters" between unmanned aerial vehicles in the air do not frequently appear online. Meanwhile, who emerges victorious from such an unusual confrontation depends both on the skill of the drone operator and on a more mundane factor such as luck.
However, such encounters might occur more frequently than we might imagine. For example, in russia, they claim to have developed a new method for fighting drones during these "air battles" — attaching nails to a drone, which will serve as its primary weapon against enemy drones.
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"We detected the drone, then attached nails to our drone and landed it on the enemy. After that, the blades would hit the nails, causing them to break, and the drone would fall down," quoted russian propaganda media from an instructor at a frontline school for reconnaissance UAVs and strike FPV drones.
Although it is quite possible that "attaching nails to a drone" could be an initiative from specific units for when their drone encounters an enemy drone during a mission.
Certainly, factors such as luck and the skill of the drone operator remain important for shooting down a drone in the air. However, despite the idea of a drone with nails seeming like another fantasy of "local tinkerers," it can be assumed that it might be one of the options for combating drones in the air.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are actively using anti-aircraft FPV drones against enemy reconnaissance UAVs today. As practice has shown, this has proven to be a very effective solution against enemy "wings," especially given the shortage of surface-to-air missiles for MANPADS.
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