On a lark I bought small drone with the intention of taking pictures of my property looking for roof damage after storms: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087TGVJYM This was about the cheapest one I could find that could take downward pictures.
It used my phone as the screen and generally flew well enough but I could never get it to idle without drifting. I crashed it several times while learning and messed up something so the downward pictures come out all wavy.
After watching a bunch of ukraine footage it seems like drone piloting would be a useful skill in my kit so I wanted to give it another try.
The biggest problem with my drone is that the video transmission range to my phone is really short, as in maybe 50 feet. I can still control it over a pretty long distance but without the video I feel like it isn't as good of an experience, and it requiers re-running the app to connect the video every time it disconnects which is kind of a buttpain.
What I'm looking for is ideally an FPV drone where the kit comes with goggles that don't require a phone connection and is ready to fly out of the box. I want at least say 300 feet of fpv range. I don't care about the best camera or longest battery life, if it gives me 15-20 minutes that is good enough. Ideally it would also have qol features like 1 button auto landing and be reasonably easy to adjust so I could get it to stay in place while idling.
Does anyone on this board know drones and can recommend a kit that doesn't cost an arm and leg?
edit: and while not required it would be nice to be able to take downward pictures
20 gauge is for women. It's also more expensive than 12 gauge. Birdshot will stop a small drone, but it's range is pretty shit and drones are a hell of a lot more maneuverable than clays.
If we're talking taking out small suicide drones, birdshot would probably be enough. It's not really a solution that would work on a battlefield unless you knew someone was going to be using them near immediately, but it is a funny excuse to take up clay shooting, which is good training for shooting moving targets.
20 gauge is for youth. More importantly the shotguns are typically lighter which might be a better option for carrying on my person. Hand those small suicide drones is what I was thinking about.
Larger drones can get hundreds of feet in the air, so those could be a real problem without a rifle.