Anti-drone technology

Recent events involving rogue drones have proven lucrative for Australian counter-drone firm DroneShield. Following a purported assassination attempt in August against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the company received an order from an unnamed Central American government security agency for DroneShield’s two cornerstone products – the DroneSentry drone mitigation system and the DroneGun Tactical …

Leading drone detection agency Dedrone provided drone detection technology at 4 undisclosed airports in the U.K. for 148 days – and here’s the drone activity they found. In a recently published report, Dedrone says that the four airports “looked to Dedrone technology to determine if they had any drone incursions …

If the rogue drones flying around Gatwick Airport yesterday were merely out for fun, they chose a particularly bad time to break the rules.  During the holiday travel rush, flights were suspended, rerouted and delayed until 3 am Thursday local time at Gatwick Airport in England, due to reported sightings …

The new proposed FAA Reauthorization package has been made public.  It’s wordy, complex, and confusing – and the headlines haven’t made understanding what’s inside easier.  There are several points of critical importance for the drone industry to understand.  The proposed Repeal of Section 336, the Integration Pilot Program, the “Safeguarding …

Anyone who has kids,  (ok maybe I have played a few games myself), knows that point and shoot video games can be fun.  In the video below,  Chinese drone company SZMID (“Beijing Shen Zhou Ming Da High-Tech Co., Ltd.”) shows off it drone jamming gun. The video below illustrates how …

In recent years there have been plenty of headlines highlighting the use of drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons. And that’s fair enough. It’s a new, interesting challenge for authorities to deal with. And fear gets clicks. Last year in the UK, for example, police monitored and …

Industry studies suggest the drone mitigation (or anti-drone) market will to grow to a billion-dollar industry within six years with predicted compound annual growth rate of 23.89 percent across 2018-22. For two counter-drone firms, recent good news stakes their claims to a piece of that fiscal pie. DroneShield Australian-based DroneShield …

Australian counter-drone agency DroneShield is taking the pole place in the world of NASCAR in the race to guard racing occasions from rogue drones. DroneShield offered anti-drone safety for the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway. A law-enforcement job pressure comprised of the Texas State Department …

As counter-drone explodes right into a multi-billion-dollar business, police companies are making the most of the brand new tech to neutralize rogue UAVs that threaten emergency conditions. In California, the Oceanside Police Department has obtained an “anti-drone gun” to cease and land errant drones. As drone use grows, many public …

A serious Australian counter-drone firm has introduced a win within the warfare towards rogue drone flights after police used an anti-UAS “gun” to down an errant flight over a significant sporting occasion. The Queensland Police Service used DroneProtect’s DroneGun throughout the latest XXI Commonwealth Games in Brisbane to neutralize a …