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Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them

Posted by timothy on from the endless-fun-from-the-balcony dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Unmanned aerial vehicles — so-called drones — can be helpful, malicious, or simply disruptive, depending on the intentions of those who use them. But while regular folks have to be worried about law suits if they shoot one down, law enforcement officers have a better solution, and one that's currently legal (for them): stop one mid-flight. This can be achieved with DroneDefender, a recently made available "gun" that uses radio control frequency disruption technologies to safely stop drones in the air, before they can pose a threat to military or civilian safety.

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  1. This will work until...... by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This will work until the drones are equipped with some rudimentary autonomous controls that will take over when the control signal is lost.

    It'll just follow its "panic-mode" programming and fly a direct course back to its origin, or loiter far enough away to be out of range of the hostile jamming.

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    1. Re:This will work until...... by countach · · Score: 1, Insightful

      They will care about that because my guess is it won't be just law enforcement which starts having these guns. Script kiddies with nothing to do will be making them and attacking drones.

  2. Re:Liability for crashes? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Police liable for anything?

    Lets be honest, this is America where police aren't liable for flash bangs.