February 1, 2016 at 23:09Video: Dutch police teach eagles to hunt quadcopters
While commercial companies and military units are experimenting with radio interference and network drones to capture drones, the Dutch police use a simpler and more versatile weapon: eagles. Law enforcement has teamed up with Guard From Above, a bird training company, to test how eagles can efficiently hunt multicopters.
The low cost of drones allows you to use them for a variety of purposes, including the delivery of drugs, weapons, maps, pornography and cell phones to prisons , shooting in remote places and even probable terrorist attacks. Damage to drones through interference or physical shooting is fraught with consequences if this happens in an urban area above people. Therefore, developers are experimenting with networks , too : a drone can shoot at a target with a network and capture it , preventing it from falling onto the crowd.
In the video below, there are footage showing how easily the eagle manages to grab a quadcopter like a DJI Phantom in the air. It is not known how safe this is for birds. The claws of predators are very sharp and capable of breaking bones, but this does not mean that carbon fiber propellers at high speed cannot damage birds. The developers plan to come up with additional protection for the paws of birds.
Eagles are not the only animals that instinctively want to destroy multicopter. Kangaroos, gorillas, geese, dogs and cats wish the same .
The low cost of drones allows you to use them for a variety of purposes, including the delivery of drugs, weapons, maps, pornography and cell phones to prisons , shooting in remote places and even probable terrorist attacks. Damage to drones through interference or physical shooting is fraught with consequences if this happens in an urban area above people. Therefore, developers are experimenting with networks , too : a drone can shoot at a target with a network and capture it , preventing it from falling onto the crowd.
In the video below, there are footage showing how easily the eagle manages to grab a quadcopter like a DJI Phantom in the air. It is not known how safe this is for birds. The claws of predators are very sharp and capable of breaking bones, but this does not mean that carbon fiber propellers at high speed cannot damage birds. The developers plan to come up with additional protection for the paws of birds.
Eagles are not the only animals that instinctively want to destroy multicopter. Kangaroos, gorillas, geese, dogs and cats wish the same .