Drones may be harmful, and consumer-grade drones have been exploited for a variety of criminal objectives.
Drone sightings disrupted travel plans for 140,000 people in London in 2018, while drones were purportedly utilised in an attack on the US power grid the same year.
Drones may be brought down from the sky using a variety of products, including the tried-and-true shotgun, DroneShield’s gun-like deployed nets, and ground-based drone net cannons, as well as more creative alternatives like very nice and quiet illegal signal scramblers.
Prototypes of a high-speed racing drone that can self-destruct, using its own propellors to spread out a net to knock down other drones, have been developed by Lithuanian hacker Aleksey Zaitsevsky.
It’s one of the coolest drone take-down designs we’ve seen, with the added benefit of being potentially cheap to deploy; a good racing drone operator can use the two cameras to position the drone — the front-facing camera can be used to find the drone, and the top camera can be used to position the net exactly where it’s needed, before detaching the individual rotors and sending the net toward the offending drone.
The interesting thing about constructing the defence drone this way is that by employing racing drone components, the gadget can go extremely fast — as anybody who has ever attended a drone racing event will know — whereas drones that carry a payload are often slower and heavier.
Most other consumer drones are readily caught up with and intercepted by the Interceptor Drone. A parachute unfolds once the rotor-net is released, and the bright orange drone glides softly down to the surface while making a beeping sound, allowing you to recover the drone’s brains and body for later re-use.
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