Hamish de Bretton-Gordon takes aim at an attack drone on Salisbury Plains, as he tests the British Army’s latest shotgun.
The British Army has spent generations teaching soldiers to shoot straight with a
rifle. On tomorrow’s battlefield, that may no longer be enough.
In Ukraine, where drones dominate the skies above the front line and account for a huge proportion of casualties, the humble shotgun is emerging as a vital last line of defence.
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