Consumer-grade drones have been used for all sorts of sinister purposes. There were reports of drones being used in an attack against the U.S. power grid last year. There are a number of products to take drones down from the sky, from the humble and time-tested shotgun, gun-like deployed nets, to more creative solutions, such as very cool and illegal signal scramble. The prototype of a high-speed racing drone that can self-destruct, using its own propellors to spread out a net to take down other drones, is being developed by aLithuanian hacker.
The propellors aim to take down offending drones. The image is credited to Aleksey Zaitsevsky.
It is one of the best designs we have seen for taking down drones, it has the benefit of being cheap to deploy, and a good racing drone operator can use the two cameras to position the drone.
The cool thing about designing the defensive drone this way is that it can be very fast, as you will know if you have ever been to a drone racing event. Most other consumer drones can easily be caught by the Interceptor Drone. Once it has deployed its net, a parachute deploys and the bright orange drone floats gently down to the surface, emitting a sound so you can collect the brains and body of it at a later date.
There are more details on Zaitsevsky's website, as well as the demo video, which is beyond cool.
Via Suas News.
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