Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Eagle Vs Drone: Dutch Police Trained Raptors to Destroy Rogue Quadcopters

Just imagine you are at the football stadium, playing football with your friends and a rogue drone buzzing over you. And suddenly a majestic eagle hunting down an unmanned aerial vehicle out of the sky.

Yes! It actually happens. May be you remember the news that, last year two eagles snatched a DJI drone quadcopter out of the sky, thinking that it was a meal. Dutch Police tie up with a raptor training company in Denmark "Guard from Above" to train raptors to destroy the rogue drones out of the air. After grabbing the drone, the eagles locate a safe place to land and try to destroy the drone by hitting it in the rigid surface.



These majestic aerial predators could soon play a crucial role in ensuring the skies are cleared from the multifarious dangerous or rebellious drones, that are putting many lives at risk. Dutch government want more safer technique than to capture the drone with an anti drone, so they attain this alternative technique (Eagles) to catch the errant quadcopters.

Recently, Japanese officials also introduced a new capture device- a high tensile synthetic net to snag a recalcitrant drone. It creates a no-fly network, in which one could not able to fly their drone. But this technique creates numerous difficulties also, as it plummets to the ground can cause a lot of damage. An eagle solves the problem entirely, with the razor sharp nails, they can easily capture the prey, whether it will be a fish, bird or a drone.


But, if you compare with these two, a trained eagle is perfect to capture the rogue drone. Drones have become increasingly common in the skies these days. Many agencies are very careful about the safety of people, large commercial aircraft or even about the privacy, which these unmanned aerial vehicle can easily invade.  

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