The sights are fantastic, and the gun is optics-ready as well. Its action is remarkably smooth and allows for quick and easy follow-up shots. Shooters praise the shotgun’s smooth action, and I can’t help but agree: The SuperNova might be my favorite, modern, pump-action shotgun. A great modern shotgun The Benelli SuperNova (Photo by Picanox via Wikimedia Commons) This allows the shooter to directly load a round into the chamber, making it easy to swap buckshot to slugs, breaching rounds, or those aforementioned drone rounds. If the user presses it as they cycle the pump, a round will not feed from the magazine into the chamber.

Second, beneath the pump sits a button called a magazine cutoff. First, it’s fairly long and provides a ton of space for the shooter to grip and rip. The SuperNova comes with a rotating bolt that helps ensure consistent extraction, even in nonpermissive environments. Interestingly enough, the SuperNova features a lot of polymers, including a polymer but steel-reinforced receiver. We’ve seen everyone from ISIS to the Ukrainian military using simple DJI drones for recon and attacks. Its ant-drone capabilities likely helped the SuperNova get the nod from the French military. The use of off-the-shelf drones has risen. Anti-drone shotgun munitions tend to work well, and while fancy electronic options exist to fry drones, the Benelli SuperNova is one that can be easily taken on patrol and doesn’t rely on a battery as electronic munition does. It comes in a variety of configurations, the 18-inch barrel, 14-inch barrel, and the most interesting to me, the 28-inch anti-drone model. In terms of pump-action shotguns, the SuperNova is a fairly impressive weapon. The contract also includes the supply of accessories, tactical VIS/IR flashlights, shotshell holders, multipoint tactical slings, etc.” Why the SuperNova A French soldier armed with a Benelli M4 Super 90 shotgun. “ The Benelli Supernova Tactical, after very severe evaluation tests from which it emerged as the winner, becomes the standard shotgun of the entire French armed forces in three different versions, 18.5″ Tactical, 14″ Tactical, and 28″ Anti-drone. Seeing a European military force adopt a new shotgun draws attention, especially because it’s a pump-action shotgun. France currently uses small numbers of the Benelli M3 shotgun for its special operation troops, but that weapon is convertible from semi-auto to pump-action.Ĭhristophe Bannier, the director of military and law enforcement sales for Humbert CTTS (a Beretta-owned French company), said of the deal, France has an interesting history of small arms, and admittedly shotguns aren’t a large portion of their arsenal.

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