{"id":1386,"date":"2025-10-16T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:15:48","slug":"french-army-adopts-hard-kill-tactics-for-drone-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/french-army-adopts-hard-kill-tactics-for-drone-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"French army adopts hard-kill tactics for drone threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1677\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A French soldier with the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment trains with a 12-gauge shotgun during an anti-drone live-fire exercise. Photo courtesy of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment.\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/564016042_1259209349573101_7098091580355180090_n-scaled-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As Western armies adapt to lessons from the war in Ukraine, France\u2019s 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment has begun training its soldiers to use shotguns against small aerial threats, including low-cost FPV drones. \u201cIn an environment of constant aerial threat, the regiment is expanding its counter-drone capabilities,\u201d the French military unit said in a recent statement. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/french-army-adopts-hard-kill-tactics-for-drone-threats\/\">French army adopts hard-kill tactics for drone threats<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Western armies adapt to lessons from the war in Ukraine, France\u2019s 2nd Marine Infantry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}