The shutdown of London's Gatwick Airport highlights the weakness of existing measures to protect vital infrastructure against drone attacks, according to designers and experts. Five years after drones become main stream and affordable we are running around trying to figure out how to regulate them. We fear that the lesson from the Gatwick drone fiasco is not that we need more counter-drone deployment, but rather that current counter-drone products don't work where the drone is bespoke, thousands of feet away and moving fast. It called on aviation authorities to adopt stronger measures to counter the disruptive threat of drones.
We believe that the Avibird can offer a lot of potential in collaboration with existing detection methods. A major problem is eliminating an unwanted drone or tracing the operator.
Some existing techniques:
Drone manufacturers still try to obtain the hold on the operator location by software. Unfortunately, a drone operator can easily bypass these functions.
What can the Avibird mean for unwanted drones?
The shutdown of London's Gatwick Airport highlights the weakness of existing measures to protect vital infrastructure against drone attacks, according to designers and experts. Five years after drones become main stream and affordable we are running around trying to figure out how to regulate them. We fear that the lesson from the Gatwick drone fiasco is not that we need more counter-drone deployment, but rather that current counter-drone products don't work where the drone is bespoke, thousands of feet away and moving fast. It called on aviation authorities to adopt stronger measures to counter the disruptive threat of drones.
We believe that the Avibird can offer a lot of potential in collaboration with existing detection methods. A major problem is eliminating an unwanted drone or tracing the operator.
Some existing techniques:
Drone manufacturers still try to obtain the hold on the operator location by software. Unfortunately, a drone operator can easily bypass these functions.
What can the Avibird mean for unwanted drones?