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Days after Dutch police released a video demonstrating a trained eagle attacking a drone, other police officials and politicians have registered interest:
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they're looking into deploying drone-busting eagles, a few days after a Scottish MP called for cops north of the border to investigate the possibility of using feathered interceptors to deal with growing flocks of wild UAVs.
According to the Times, Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has tasked a chief inspector with seeing if a Dutch talon-armed anti-UAV initiative might work in the UK's capital.
[...] A Metropolitan Police spokesman said yesterday: "As would be expected in an organisation that is transforming we take an interest in all innovative new ideas and will of course be looking at the work of the Dutch police use of eagles."
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:17AM
Not if they sufficiently armor the raptors. The original Dutch initiative did mention this option, though they didn't go into details.
It still won't protect against heavily modified drones fitted with fatal melee capabilities, but I would think those are the edge case. I wouldn't think the "growing flock of wild-UAVs" mentioned by the MP were terrorist kamikaze drones.