Is this an option for a possible and effective defense against drone swarms?
Or will such a conventional machine gun system quickly and easily be overwhelmed by e.g. waves of drone swarms from all directions?
Will self-guided smart munitions make the difference? What is the price of smart munitions?
"... Of course, using guns for air defense is as old as the airplane. What's different about CBAD's [Cannon-Based Air Defense] guns is that they're rapid-fire chain guns that carry the shells on a belt and spit out the rounds like a machine gun. Even this isn't that new. Anti-missile defenses like Phalanx and Goalkeeper ward off supersonic missiles by throwing up a wall of metal in front of the threat. ...
"CBAD drastically decreases the number of rounds that must be fired to hit the target," said Ryan Carlson, chief engineer of CBAD for Northrop Grumman. "With cannon air defense we’re not firing thousands of rounds per minute. We’re executing very specific fire salvos – handfuls of rounds – at intended targets with extreme precision." ..."
CBAD uses, is self-guided smart ammunition equipped with proximity fuses. These lock onto their target, guide themselves in, and explode before impact to spray the target with shrapnel. ...
A precision round locking on target
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