Project to train eagle to capture suspicious drones in the air, test conducted at the airfield

While the drones of the unmanned aircraft became familiar enough to be easily purchasable by anyone, drones near the nuclear power plantDiscoveryIt is done, drones near the equipment of the nuclear submarineUncontrollableAs the owner's men were sentenced to a fine penalty, related cases also increased. Meanwhile,Plan to trap eagle and catch drones in the airThe Dutch police and the private company cooperatively carried out the test that the eagle actually captured the drone on the airfield.

Dutch Firm Trains Eagles to Take Down High-Tech Prey: Drones - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/world/europe/drones-eagles.html


In Europe, there are no unified rules on drone, and we regulate ourselves independently for each country. Due to the fact that clear regulations are not advanced, Drone invades the airport, threatens the safety of airplanes, drone is used to smuggle things to prisons, drone flying at low altitude in public event, safe It is an urgent matter to ensure safety accompanying Drone's flight, as there are problems with sex.

So the Dutch police are considering the introduction, it is a catch-taking plan of Drone using "Eagle". This plan was invented by Sjoerd Hoogendoorn, a security consultant during the investigation of the threat of Drone, and Mr. Hoogendoorn, with a bird trainer Ben de KeijzerGuard From AboveWe established a company called Dutch Police and inquired about technology. Regarding the plan to train eagle and capture drones, it is detailed in the following article.

The police are training under "Eagle" to catch the drones in the air - GIGAZINE


At the stage of February 2016, there was a test that an eagle catches a drone in flight at an indoor experiment site. On May 28, 2016, an experiment was conducted to capture the drones in flight using an eagle at the military airfield of the Falkenburgh Navy Air Force Base, already abandoned and used in the southern part of the Netherlands. Release the eagle into the sky ......


Eagle picks up the drone in flight and it approaches.


And an eagle catches Gassiri and a drone with a leg. Unlike other drone capturing methods, the eagle has the advantage of being able to catch the drones without being affected by the sky's wind. Also, since the eagle's nails have scales to protect the nails, there is little worry that the eagle will injure with the propeller of the drone.


The eagle who caught the drones is trained to come back to the ground trainer while grasping the drones, so he can capture suspicious drones while minimizing the danger to the ground as much as possible.


The eagle who caught the drone seems to be given meat mass with a reward.


Mark Wiebes, the criminal director of the Dutch police, said, "There have been several accidents involving drone around the airport so far, the test at this airport was very promising," commented . In the future we will do the final test and in fact we will utilize the drone capture method by Eagle in the Netherlands.

However, since the drawn capturing method using eagle can not be used regardless of location or time, it is possible to jam the radio waves of a drone, capture a suspicious drone using the net, shoot the drones by shot We plan to use other drone capture means, such as. Mr. Wiebes says, "At airports around the world, we think that it is easy to introduce drone eagles, as there are some airports that have already been introduced to eat nearby birds."