Beretta-DUALEE LIVET Turret Mounts Eight Benelli Shotguns for AI-Assisted C-UAS Engagement
If shotgun-based C-UAS systems win NATO procurement trials, demand for programmable airburst 12-gauge ammunition will outpace current production capacity at the handful of specialty manufacturers making it, because that round does not exist in standard military logistics chains. That supply gap would fall on national armament agencies to resolve before any fielding timeline is credible.
Beretta's pairing of a legacy small-arms brand with an AI tracking layer also signals that the C-UAS market is bifurcating: high-end directed-energy and missile intercept for peer threats, and cheap kinetic saturation for the sub-$5,000 drone tier that dominates the current threat environment.
The Danish Armed Forces are now evaluating a kinetic C-UAS option that costs a fraction of electronic warfare or missile-based intercept systems, at a moment when small drone proliferation is straining NATO's lower-tier air defense inventory.
Eight shotguns on a single remotely operated turret means a small crew can engage multiple simultaneous low-altitude threats without exposing personnel, which addresses a specific gap that US Marine Corps 2nd LAAD Battalion has been developing tactics to fill.
If Denmark moves toward procurement, it would give Beretta Defense Technologies its first NATO customer for the LIVET and open a qualification pathway for other allied buyers.
What is the effective engagement envelope of the LIVET against a maneuvering target — specifically, at what slant range does the airburst ammunition's dispersion pattern drop below a lethal threshold against a sub-1kg drone?
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