Posted on 10/15/2015 10:35:33 AM PDT by simpson96
While some homeowners are turning to shotguns to deal with unwanted drones, federal agencies and law enforcement lack the necessary technology to deal with this increasing menace. However, thanks to Battelle Innovations and its new DroneDefender, law enforcement now has an anti-drone system designed to disable a drone without blasting it out the sky.
The new DroneDefender uses radio pulses to disable a hostile drone within a 400-meter radius. These pulses interrupt the communications system of the drone, making it think it is out of range. The drone’s safety protocols then kick in, forcing it to either hover, return to its point of origin, or descend slowly as it prepares to land. Because the weapon jams communication with the nearby operator, the DroneDefender also can prevent detonation and other remote functions.
The radio jamming system is mounted to a gun chassis that makes the anti-drone weapon lightweight (10 lbs or less) and easy-to-use. It is designed to fire within 0.1 seconds of startup and can operate for five hours straight. Not only is this system efficient, this rifle-like design is also familiar to the DroneDefender’s targeted audience — government agencies and law enforcement.
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Next is that this will be an app for the phone.
Until someone rewrites the safety protocols to “immediately attack target” or “commence firing”.
Time to up the ante on the drone side with spread spectrum communications. To which, the counter-escalation will be a vastly more powerful interrupter transmitter.
But, hey, I thought jamming legally licensed communications was outlawed? But, it’s OK when the government does it!
How hard would it be to put the target on a small (shielded) computer and let the drone fly there on internal guidance?
Modern R/C radios on 2.4Ghz already use spread spectrum and/or frequency hopping to prevent interference with other 2.4Ghz R/C radios.
I guess I haven’t been keeping up. I knew it was authorized, but not that it was in common use.
‘Because the weapon jams communication with the nearby operator, the DroneDefender also can prevent detonation and other remote functions.’
No, thats completely wrong. It depends entirely on the electronics. It could just as easily be built to detonate on loss of signal.
Speaking of drones... I just purchased a SkyViper video drone. Love that thing. Outstanding footage of kids ball games and cookouts.
Have a video helicopter as well, and a apache helicopter that shoots missiles, and a nano bug drone thats fast as heck.
My dogs love to chase them.
Yeah, we was too poor to have toys like that when I was a kid. Now I’m grown I can buy all the cool toys I never had.
And everyone can kiss my grits about it.
Oh please, Yes, Yes. I live in little Mexico (formally Los Angeles) and please extend this to be able to blow up a back yard sound boom boxes. I'll pay thousands for one. I wish these Mexicans would go back to Mexico and they would be appreciated.
I like that ground neutralizing speargun thing that is portrayed in the fast and furious movies.
not hard at all
Well if you can find someone that would develop an EMF gun..your problems solved.
HERF guns are not new nor even very hard to build.. but the FCC does take a dim view of them.
example
http://hacknmod.com/hack/diy-electromagnetic-herf-gun-project/
Build it to fly to the jammer first...
The ‘pulse’ of a 7.62 x 54R will control a drone, too.
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