Time To Start Shooting These Drones Down?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40476264
They should sling these eejits in jail.

[Baldric]

I know just the man for the job.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d4/68/24/d46824265de8895cb3eab03fcd6e32dc.jpg

[vulcan42]

The French Air Force and the Dutch Police are training eagles to take out these drones, about time we started to do the same.

[Ellipsis]

Yes, they probably need to be licensed something like firearms, and perhaps chipped something like pets.

Not that it would help with deliberate criminal use ...

[ummmm]

The one we have at work needs a license to fly it. That should apply to all drones.

[Ellipsis]

A frequency jammer would probably be more effective than a bird, especially if multiple drones were employed in some kind of deliberate attack:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/sky-net-illegal-drone-plan/

But birds could be used, too, alongside frequency jammers.

[Zacs-Master]

firearms near flying aircraft...mmm.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM I'm think airports should have some kind of perimeter defence. No doubt terrorists have considered the use of drones etc

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah, i think it's the 'some kind of' which is the issue. The fact that they seem to get spotted quite quickly means that they probably have some sort of surveillance going on.

[bookbinder]

What about putting a tracker device in every drone at the manufacturer's factory? Every tracker with its own, personal signal, then they could be traced by some authority with the appropriate equipment.