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Shoot down a spying drone without wasting a bullet!

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October 27
by chris eilers

Do you like drone? Do you like see a drone approaching your place and observing what you are doing? If not, there is no problem at all, right?! But if yes, what will you do? Will you whip out a 12-gauge shotgun every time it whizzes over your porch? If you are not allowed to do that, so what’s the other way?

While it might drain all the fun out of drone hunting, there is now a non-kinetic alternative to taking out unmanned aerial nuisances that won’t send dozens of tiny, potentially lethal metal pellets speeding through the air toward your neighbor’s pool party.

The Ohio-based applied science and technology group Battelle has developed a system named “DroneDefender” to make drones unable to continue flying “without compromising safety or risking collateral damage.”

In other words, DroneDefender is like a weapon to fight against an alien, but do not take it too seriously 😀 . In fact, it makes use of a harmless directed-energy pulse to disrupt the radio frequencies that control the drone’s flight. “It basically makes the drone think that it’s gone out of range,” said Dan Stamm, Battelle senior researcher. Therefore, you will no longer experience the unpleasant feeling of watching a drone spying us and any bad consequences of shooting it down.

In addition, according to Stamm, the drone will follow one of three default commands: “It’ll either hover in position until the pilot can regain control link, it lands so the pilot can recover it physically, or it returns to its point of origin.”

Nonetheless, the DroneDefender is not likely to reach normal consumers soon since the radio frequencies it controls (aka jams) are being strictly regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Yet, we have to admit that Battelle’s invention can enable law enforcement and other government authorities to stop drones without risking public safety.

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