Anti-drone

An emerging anti-drone company has a brilliant idea: to catch a rogue drone, release a hunter drone. California-based Airspace Systems recently conclude a successful test of a hybrid system that marries UAV tracking software and sensors with a hexcopter on steroids. The Interceptor drone engages the target in a kind …

A security researcher has developed a new anti-drone device that takes control of rogue drones. During the PacSec 2016 conference in Tokyo last week, Trend Micro security research manager Jonathan Andersson demonstrated a hack that remotely highjacks unauthorized or unwanted drones using a transmitter that exploits a common radio protocol. …

Photo courtesy of DARPA The U.S. military’s top think-tank is thinking of ways to map and track potentially harmful drones over major American cities. Last month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of the Aerial Dragnet program “to provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all [drones] operating below …

Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Maddelin Angebrand The U.S. Navy is testing a virtual net it hopes can both detect and splash rogue drones before they become a clear and present danger. During an exercise last week, missile destroyers USS Lassen and USS Jason Dunham checked out …

An anti-UAV company’s drone-dropping launcher proved to be Top Gun during a recent industry competition. Start-up firm OpenWorks Engineering won the Best UAS Interdiction Award at the Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge in August. The company’s flagship product, SkyWall, stopped the most drones out of seven finalists. Staged at Quantico …

A drone-stopping solution some say is for the birds will officially take flight over the Netherlands in what may be the first police use of a living creature as an anti-UAV measure. In February, DRONELIFE reported that Dutch company, Guard From Above had launched a plan to deploy eagles and other …

A tech startup is launching a new product that may be a one-stop-shop solution for foiling or blocking rogue drones. ApolloShield has developed its namesake, anti-drone package that can detect an errant UAV and kick it back to its owner. Using a radio and audio sensors, as well as cameras, …