Weapon Makers Declare War on Drones from todays WSJ

[grtday]

Weapon Makers Declare War on Drones- This is scary!

 

[JSKCKNIT]

I'm still waiting to see pictures or video of the drone(s) over Gatwick. I really wish media outlets would stop referencing that hoax.
1 Broken Drone, No Video, 2 Suspects Released: Gatwick Episode Doesn’t Add Up

 

[Waylander]

Hi grtday
Nothing happens when I click on your link.... "Weapons makers...." is it broken, or has it been taken down...
Waylander

 

[Nightwolf]

Weapon Makers Declare War on Drones

 

[Nightwolf]

A new arms race in anti-drone technology is emerging, as airports and militaries face an increasing menace from unmanned aircraft
The anti-drone market should exceed $1.2 billion in annual sales next year and top $1.5 billion in 2021…
…the fast-growing category could become a lucrative new revenue stream for weapons makers.
…although London Gatwick airport has said it has bought unspecified military-grade counter-drone equipment.
Armed forces, in contrast, typically have more leeway to use lethal force to down unmanned aircraft because they don’t have to worry about nearby airplanes and civilians. That has prompted a global arms race among manufacturers to develop new anti-drone technology. Often the same companies that sell drones also market equipment to down them.
Boeing Co. in 2015 used a laser to shoot down a small drone and it has since delivered such equipment to the U.S. Army. The Mobile Expeditionary High Energy Laser was mounted on a Stryker combat vehicle and used in exercises, including last year. Boeing says the system, demonstrated with up to 10 kilowatt of power, functions like a welding torch that can heat up a target hundreds of yards or more away.
So far, no technology has emerged as a clear winner.
Three Ways to Kill a Drone

1. Drone guns
   • Range: 0.2–1.2 miles.
   • Single operator fires radio-frequency energy to disrupt a commercial drone
2. Laser canons
   • Range: 0.1–2.5 miles
   • Mobile truck unit uses a laser to melt a drone’s structure
3. Missile systems
   • Range: Up to 19 miles
   • Missiles shoot down typically larger military drones

About the leading photo, the article states that:

“Boeing displayed a hobbyist drone that had been downed by an anti-drone system, at a recent arms fair in Abu Dhabi”​

You can read the entire article here [paywall]

 

[David_Cambridge]

This is a direct consequence of breaking the existing rules. The outlaws are helping fund the maker of these systems

 

[Raptorman0909]

This is a direct consequence of breaking the existing rules. The outlaws are helping fund the maker of these systems

This is sadly the dynamic we're dealing with -- 5%, or whatever the percentage is, think that because they paid good money for a drone that this gives them the right to do anything they want with it and that rules or laws are, well, just more meddling regulation. These same idiots own firearms and handle them with little respect of them and I say that as a gun owner who's seen for myself the entitled mindset at work. We had an area of public land west of Utah Lake that many gun owners would go on the weekends for target shooting but a couple idiots went there with incendiary rounds and started a wildfire -- after the smoke had cleared the land was closed to the public.

I could go on into offroad vehicles and many other areas with the same entitled mindset but I'll pass...


Brian

 

[lmmavrick]

This is needed and mandatory for all security . this is not about the local drone market , people using them for either 107 or recreational . we will not see the military going around shooting down people drones or even local LEO . this is about terroism here and over seas . lets not blow this out of porpotion

 

[dangerd]

This is only a problem for people who fly where it is illegal to do so. Not a problem for the rest of us.

 

[Dwilliams35]

The existence of anti-drone technology isn’t scary, It’s just who uses it and why that can get scary..

 

[N017RW]

No different than a drone itself.

 

[NRJ]

This is a direct consequence of breaking the existing rules. The outlaws are helping fund the maker of these systems

Laws/Rules are made for honest people. Locks/padlocks etc., are made to keep honest people out. The entitled, uncaring, and criminals don't care about laws/rules. We find these people in every walk of life.