drone takedown tools: beam guns and eagles

[Jon]

Ever been outside on your private property, looked up, and saw a drone flying over your head and recording you? These drone flights are illegal, but my personal experience has been that quoting FAA guidelines to an overhead drone has no effect.

The common response here is "shotgun", and there are plenty of stories and videos on the net documenting that exact interaction. Though tempting, it's often not feasible to discharge a shotgun in such a situation.

Fortunately, there are some newer countermeasures. What's fascinating about them is that the two leading technologies for drone takedown could not be more different!

One is a a directed energy weapon fired at the drone. I would be extremely skeptical of this video were the manufacturer not Battelle, the world's largest nonprofit research and development group (more). Here's a drone takedown video of their DroneDefender beam gun jamming system:

The other method involves trained birds of prey, and it's currently being used by the Dutch National Police. Here's a video from Guard from Above, a Dutch company training birds of prey for drone takedown: