02:02 17-04-2026

Paint-Filled Shotgun Round Counters FPV Drones

Russian engineers developed a paint-filled shotgun round to counter FPV drones by blinding their cameras and disrupting control, creating effective no-fly zones.

Russian engineers have developed a specialized shotgun round filled with paint, designed to counter FPV drones. The existence of the project is described in a document reviewed by RIA Novosti.

The concept is built around disrupting the drone’s video link rather than physically destroying it. Inside the cartridge is an opaque coloring agent. When fired, the substance is propelled forward by the gases of an additional charge and disperses into a dense cloud directly in the drone’s flight path.

As an FPV drone passes through this cloud, fine particles settle on the lens of its onboard camera. The result is immediate: the video feed is effectively blinded, leaving the operator unable to control the device.

According to the developers, such ammunition could be used to establish no-fly zones around protected sites. They also point out the novelty of the approach, noting that similar solutions have not been previously described in open sources or scientific literature.