A low-tech solution to a high-tech problem.
Authorities are doing their best to search for means and ways to cope up and deal with the dangers that drones may bring. Laws to regulate drones are being drafted; laser guns to shut them down were being produced and other possible solutions are being tested such as using net attached to a bigger drone. But for Netherlands’ National Police: training eagles to snatch drones out of the sky is just another bright idea to deal with unwanted drones.
Teamed-up with a raptor-training security firm, the Guard From Above based in Hague, Dutch police trains bald eagles to deal with drones by taking them down into a safe place in exchange for a reward from their handlers. The project is “a low-tech solution for a high-tech problem”, Guard From Above’s CEO Sjoerd Hoogendoorn described in a press release.
Regarding the birds' safety, they are looking for extra protective measures. An expert also says that the eagles seem to recognize the drone’s rotors. “They seem to be whacking the drone right in the centre so they don’t get hit; they have incredible visual acuity and they can probably actually see the rotors.”, said the National Audubon Society’s Geoff LeBaron to the Guardian.
Watch how these trained birds of prey disable drone on the video below.
H/T: The Guardian
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