Originally Posted by
pasta
That means you need to have a pretty high level of confidence that no-one's going to get hurt before you start taking pot shots and risk dropping a dead drone onto the local orphanage.
I'd imagine the biggest concern isn't the dead drone, but overshooting rounds from high powered weapons (I don't imagine shotguns would be much of an option). Not quite Lebanese wedding style, but the good people of Sussex and Surrey may get upset if ballistic 7.62 or 0.5 started raining down on them!!
Back in WW2, there was a concept of a 'rammer fighter' proposed - maybe we need racing drones that kamikaze at the offending drone