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That will work against large drones (relatively rare), but is way overkill against smaller ones, and I'm somewhat doubtful it'll even be able to target them properly. It will also pose a not insignificant danger to anything around it for quite some distance, because ammunition that doesn't hit or explode will fall back on the ground with some force.
I guess for the smaller drones like the one that bus driver kicked out of the sky on Leipzig airport, giving every other cop a shotgun would work better.
Why would it not work against small drones? It is supposed work against swarms. Though strangely enough, in their presentation video, the small drone keeps flying.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/r-AVQxhJnbc
I don't think that shotguns are enough. A drone could do a high approach and then drop down from above. At an airport, there wouldn't be somebody next to every plane.
Impressive, didn't expect that. But that still leaves the danger to the surroundings. Even if this fires air-burst ammunition that should theoretically be fused to self-destruct before it impacts anywhere it shouldn't, it is a quite large calibre, so if the fuse on a single shot fails, (things like that happen, nothing is 100% perfect) someone some place quite far away might have a bit of a problem, 35mm in diameter, and travelling at several times the speed of sound.
I don't think that anybody in power values an injured person more than a plane. Though an expoding plane should already put more people at risk than the falling amunition.
They may not value an injured person more than a plane... but they value one thing: Votes.
You can bet that the moment a civilian person is only slightly injured during an attempt to shoot down a drone the Bild "newspaper" and hordes of bots (either the electronic or of the meat kind) will curbstomp the politicians who are responsible.
Even if there were total disregard for life safety (which there isn't, at least not on this side of the conflict), the material damage this can do is immense, too, especially in a high value environment like an airport.
In that conflict loosely related to those drone incidents, we have seen multiple incidents of anti-drone defence causing more damage than the actual drone attack, due to reckless use of potent weapons near vulnerable facilities. Nobody in their right mind would want that, even though in an all-out war with large scale attacks, more risk is acceptable than in a "not quite war yet" scenario where hostile intelligence services are committing small scale, single point terrorist acts.