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Fnord666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

This year, the world saw a long-theorized weapon in action: a commercial drone, like a person might find at Best Buy, dropping a bomb on a target in Iraq. These drone bombers, used by the ultra-violent quasi-state ISIS in Iraq and Syria [popsci.com], are the flashiest combination of modern technologies with the modern battlefield. Cheap, camera-carrying robots, put to nefarious ends by a group that could never otherwise dream of fielding an air force. Dropping grenades isn't the deadliest thing an insurgent group can do with a small flying robot, but it leads to a very important question: What, exactly, is the answer to such a drone?

[...]Here is just a short sample of the more out-there anti-drone tools: net guns, drones carrying nets [popsci.com], squads [popsci.com] of drones [popsci.com] with nets [popsci.com], drones with net guns [popsci.com], and a smart anti-drone bazooka [popsci.com] that fires, you guessed it, a net at a drone (we liked that last one). There was a vaporware drone concept that ensnared the propellers of other drones with wire [popsci.com]. A Russian firm floated the concept of a microwave gun [popsci.com], to fry the electronics of hostile drones. And most famously, there are the Dutch police eagles, trained to snag a drone from the sky [popsci.com].

Part of the problem for law enforcement, the Pentagon, and other entities trying to protect against drones is that they're cheap. Workable quadcopters cost as little as a couple hundred dollars. Is there a way to knock drones out of the sky that's just as cheap as the drone itself?

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http://www.popsci.com/how-to-stop-a-drone [popsci.com]

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