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Reuters reports of an experimental drone system tested recently in Germany. Unfortunately there's not a direct link, only this story on the ITNews site:
Basically, a good drone takes down the bad one, as in this excerpt:
"In December, authorities regained control over the Gatwick airfield only after the British army deployed military technology to guard the area. But shooting down drones, or immobilising them with electromagnetic pulses or even jamming them, is impractical at civilian airports given the possibility of inadvertently causing harm to people or aircraft.
Instead, DFS and Rheinmetall, Germany's largest arms maker, have tested a solution that could be highly automated, connecting existing air traffic data with advanced radar systems, acoustic and infrared sensors and optical equipment to first detect possible intruders, and then neutralise them with other drones.
In Wednesday's demonstration, which was hosted by the German military's Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft (WTD61) about 50 km (35 miles) north of Munich, a "good" drone threw a net over a potentially threatening one, taking it to the ground."
Nets definitely seem the right approach to me. What do you think?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 07 2019, @03:58PM (2 children)
I hear the net is bad: will this net have a VPN or will it be banned ? Will they throttle the speed of this net? Will
crackers(sorry) HACKERS be able to take over this net?The net is bad.
Wait til N. Korea gets onto this net and infects it with....Netitus or whatever they do.
Just you wait.
Man, this probably would have been better written by realDonaldTrump. :(
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:48PM (1 child)
Whatever it is, it's a good robot taking out a bad robot with a Net. But they're flying, so it'll happen in the Sky. Put all of those things together, and I don't see any part of that being a problem, or potentially relating to any sort of cautionary tale.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:55PM
O...M......G...!
You are SOOOO right!
O..M..Fecking G.
RUN!
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