Italian LIVET turret with eight shotguns demonstrated in Denmark

An Italian counter-drone turret that carries eight Benelli shotguns has been put through a live-fire demonstration for the Danish Armed Forces, according to Dualee, one of the companies behind it.

Dualee, an Italian defense technology firm, said on social media on Thursday that its LIVET M4 remote-controlled weapon station “showcased its advanced capabilities in front of the Danish Armed Forces” during a recent live demonstration in Denmark. The company didn’t give a date or location for the demo.

The LIVET is a turret that sits on a vehicle or guards a fixed site, and its operator controls it from a distance. It uses artificial intelligence to spot small drones, follow them and point eight shotguns at them.

According to the company, the system is built to “detect and identify micro and mini drones instantly” and to track them “with extreme precision using AI-driven analytics.”

Dualee said the turret can engage targets “completely autonomously,” but it added that the decision to shoot stays with a person. The system fires “based on the final decision of the gunner,” the company wrote.

The shotguns are Benelli M4 Drone Guardians, a version of the M4 shotgun built to bring down small drones such as the first-person-view attack drones used heavily in Ukraine. Benelli says the gun works best out to about 50 meters (164 feet) and can reach up to 100 meters (328 feet) in good conditions, using tungsten shot.

The single-gun version is already in service. Japan signed a contract for Drone Guardian shotguns in September 2025, and Ukraine uses them against Russian drones.

LIVET puts eight of those guns on one mount. Beretta Defense Technologies, the parent group of Benelli, first showed the turret at the Eurosatory defense show in Paris in June, describing it as a station with auto-tracking and remote engagement for protecting key sites.

Dualee credited “a powerful R&D collaboration” with Benelli Armi for the result and thanked the Danish military “for hosting us.” It didn’t say whether Denmark is considering buying the system.

Denmark has been building up its defenses against drones. Last year it decided to buy eight ground-based air defense systems to protect cities, bases and critical infrastructure. Then-Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called ground-based air defense “an absolute top priority.”