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London Metropolitan Police Consider Drone-Attacking Eagles

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday February 09 2016, @01:01AM   
from the avian-attack-wing dept.

takyon writes:

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."

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• Re:Not gonna fly Re:Not gonna fly (Score: 3, Funny) by cmn32480 on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:52AM

  by cmn32480 (443) <reversethis-{moc.liamg} {ta} {08423nmc}> on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:52AM (#301125) Journal

  Give the Eagles air-to-air missiles. That ought to even the odds with the razor-blade packing drones.

  Don't bring a razor blade to a dogfight!

  --
  "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson

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• Re:Not gonna fly (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @04:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @04:12AM (#301168)

  Missiles or how about...lasers?

  *hides behind anonymity*

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