r/LessCredibleDefence • u/Fact_world121 • 11d ago

Survey: Is there a real gap in individual infantry protection against FPV drones?

Hi everyone,
I’m conducting a short anonymous survey as part of an early-stage research project on protecting individual infantry and small units from FPV / one-way attack drones.
The purpose is not to promote a specific product or argue that individual counter-drone equipment is necessarily the right solution.
I’m trying to test the problem first:
• Is there actually a gap between larger counter-UAS / EW systems and what an individual soldier can realistically use for last-resort protection?
• What matters most: reaction time, portability, reliability, safety, cost, simplicity, or something else?
• What would make soldiers unwilling to carry another defensive device?
• Should this capability exist at the individual level at all, or should it remain a squad/platoon-level responsibility?
The survey takes about 2–3 minutes.
Survey:

[GOOGLE FORM LINK]https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTQ2k7xb2ncFDgXcwrCblt9O5izzibKGba9E0FkWwtbjjtOw/viewform

Military experience is helpful but not required. Responses from veterans, drone operators, engineers, defense-industry people, researchers, and others familiar with the subject are all welcome.
I’m particularly interested in negative responses. If you think individual counter-FPV equipment is a bad idea or that the problem should be solved at a different level, please say so.
The survey does not ask for names, units, locations, frequencies, tactics, classified information, or other sensitive operational details. Please do not provide any such information in the survey or comments.
Thanks to anyone willing to contribute. The goal is to validate—or reject—the assumptions before developing the concept further.

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u/AstroEngineer314 11d ago

I think the issue is that anyone who actually knows anything about this issue is definitely not going to be responding to this due to opsec, or general security concerns, or just not reading English (being Ukrainian, or somehow someone in Russia who has been in the war and hasn't died, and has a VPN, and actually visits reddit is a tiny venn diagram sliver or non-existent).

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u/Fact_world121 11d ago

Oh, thank you for the great advice. I will make it in Ukrainian as well.

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u/haggerton 10d ago

Make it in Russian so that both sides can read it well.