Justifies building a fleet of thousands of drones, at a fraction of the cost of a wing of billion dollar fighters.
Rogue Drones launched by the Rebel Alliance!!
Has the military never heard of target practice?
Where is the ‘Grand Bay bombing and gunnery range’? Moody isn’t anywhere near the coast.
Just set up jammers or localized EMP generators. Track down the controllers, arrest and prosecute.
“Prepare for Drone Apocalypse”: New ammo meant to protect privacy— and down drones
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/24/drone-munition-new-line-ammo-company-meant-protect/
We should have the same thing around civilian airports. I fear it's just a matter of time before someone uses drones to bring down an airliner.
Maybe the Air Force is looking for the British to submit a proposal for this system:
“The ‘death ray’ that can knock out drones from up to a mile away using radio waves”
It could be the answer to the rising threat of drones - a ‘death ray’ that uses radio waves to disable them from up to a mile away.
The system is being shown off in Las Vegas amid growing concern over the threat from unmanned vehicles.
It uses high powered radio waves to disable drones, effectively blocking their communication and switching them off in midair.
Defences sources confirmed last month the British-designed system called AUDS – Anti Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Defence System – was trialled in Scotland earlier this year and proved effective against remote-controlled drones and autonomous drones which follow pre- programmed flight paths.
The manufacturers of AUDS claim it takes between 10 and 15 seconds to target and disrupt multiple drones being flown in a ‘swarm attack’.
The technology has been designed to intercept civilian grade mini-drones and would not affect commercial or military aircraft, which use encrypted communications.
Boeing recently revealed a radical new laser weapon small enough to fit into a suitcase - but poweful enough to blast a drone out of the sky.
The Japanese have a neat setup to eliminate any unwanted drone - they use a capture drone with a squarish net hanging from the bottom and sneaks up on the rogue catching it in the net. Looks like flies hanging off flypaper ...
Don’t birds pose the same kind of aviation danger as toy drones?
And aren’t there a lot more birds?
Radio cntrolled helicopters are good toys. Drones are bad toys. They are one in the same.
The term drone was coined to make them evil.
(I have no stock in any company manufacturing or marketing radio controlled planes or helicpoters.)
Deploy computerized shotgun phalanxes around all military installations, rogue drone problem is history. And wouldn’t we all like a similar system at our homes?
I've been tempted to buy one of those drones for awhile.I wonder what would happen if....