{"id":44922,"date":"2026-04-15T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44922"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:02:16","slug":"marines-on-way-to-middle-east-seen-using-rifles-with-anti-drone-smart-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44922","title":{"rendered":"Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/marines-drone-optic-2026\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SMASH-2000L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:225px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Marines in the photos are with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which deployed in March to support operations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/marines-drone-optic-2026\/\">Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: sight detects best time to shoot a drone down, only allows boom when so.  imho, fine mesh nets in shotgun or 20mm or maybe 30mm rifle grenade shell.  or even hand tossed, 2 or 3 second delay after tossing at drone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines in the photos are with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1233,2247,56],"class_list":["post-44922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-drones","tag-infantry","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922\/revisions\/44925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}