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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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• Geese Geese (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 09 2016, @03:40AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 09 2016, @03:40AM (#301152) Journal

  What is this obsession with eagles? Why not a perfectly good goshawk? Or even better, geese. Large, Canadian, Geese, at altitude, having been well fed some time before. Bombs away, and no risk to the birds. When the drone disabling material hits, well, the drone, it gets real!

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• Re:Geese (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:15PM

  by turgid (4318) on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:15PM (#301414) Journal

  Remember what happened to the Goodies!

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