Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ukraine's Handheld FPV Killer?" video.

@DOCTUSCUMSCIENTIA Underbarrel shotguns add weight to the rifle even though they're not used 99.9% of the time. There's a reason breaching shotguns are carried at the hip or on the rear of a plate carrier instead of underslung.
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@Treblaine If the choice is the weight of an optic or a grenade launcher, the calculation is on the side of adding weight to increase rifle functionality. You're not guaranteed to have your rifle by your side when you get targeted by a drone. This cannot be thought of as a weapon, but more of a life vest. It stays strapped to the body. You were riding on a BMP that drove over a mine and you got flung into a ditch? Your rifle is in the bushes. The drones show up to pick off the stragglers. Is this a weapon or a life vest?
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@Treblaine If you watch the footage, many people taken out by drones aren't even carrying their rifle anymore. You actually don't know when you're going to use a breaching shotgun if you enter a building you've never laid your eyes on and thus don't know which doors can be/are locked. You're thinking of a Battlefield scenario where you're having fun shooting your rifle and see a drone so you click the button to switch to the underbarrel attachment. Instead, people are targeted when walking around, eating, etc. and sometimes have their rifle laid out by their side or even stacked in a triangle with their squadmates' rifles. The grenadier is a grenadier. His job is being the grenadier. This is a last minute life saver. Not a job.
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 @Treblaine It would add weight to the rifle.
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Except that's less useful. You want to keep the rifle light for the several months you're carrying it every day. You'll maybe have the chance to use this once or twice in the entire conflict, unless you're somehow a juicy target for drone operators.
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What happens when the drone uses a signal that your jammer doesn't have in its spectrum? There's footage of drones dropping grenades on jammers, using slant range to observe jammer locations and call in artillery to knock them offline, or people writing complaints that newer drones are slipping past their jamming efforts.
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Exactly.
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You're gonna be hassling all the farmers in Europe and chopping down their shotgun barrels? "Just do X!" people forget that having a single source streamlines everything. Imagine having 40 different models of shotgun serving in the frontlines, in different states of care/disrepair, some of which were made by a manufacturer that went out of business.
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Lancets are a waste against individuals. We're talking about quadcopter with RPG warhead stuff.
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