Russia says its new anti-drone turret fires programmable rounds that calculate when to explode

• Russia said it’s making its own anti-drone turret with programmable airburst rounds.
• The ZAK-30 Citadel uses sensors to detect and track incoming drones’ flight paths, Rostec said.
• It then tells remote-controlled fuzes in its 30mm shells when to detonate.

The German firm’s AHEAD shells are airburst rounds, too, releasing a cloud of tungsten fragments upon receiving a detonation signal.

Northrop Grumman’s Bushmaster chain gun can also fire Mk310 programmable airburst munition rounds, which also use remotely controlled fuzes.

Airburst rounds are a common way of bolstering the effectiveness of antiaircraft munitions against drones, with shrapnel or pellets designed to spread out like in a shotgun blast.