Trained eagles to target drones

Trained eagles to target drones

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Digga

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282 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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You can never have too many eagles. This can only be a 'good thing'.

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wseed

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129 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Poor eagles, is this not going to end in a pile of feathers.

Surely also unless they think that delivering explosives is the issue they'd be much better having their own drones that can follow them back to the owners. All this is also assuming they can respond with an eagle/drone intersection team in the time before a drones battery depletes.

skyrover

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203 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Could get expensive when eagles start losing their talons in the props

andymadmak

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269 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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This may be a silly question, but what stops the drone's propellors chopping the eagles feet off? (or at least hurting it quite a lot!)

Pah! Skyrover beat me to it!

MikeyC

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226 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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IMO this is potentially very cruel - call in the RSPCA/B !

far better would be to train the bird to drop a net onto the drone instead - if that's possible ?

Stickyfinger

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104 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Mini ECM pod's on pigeon's would be a good way to disable a drone

Cupramax

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251 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Coming soon, drones fitted with air to eagle missiles hehe

Impasse

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240 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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MikeyC said:
IMO this is potentially very cruel - call in the RSPCA/B !

far better would be to train the bird to drop a net onto the drone instead - if that's possible ?


No eagles were harmed in the making of this gif.

ikarl

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198 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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At a guess, I doubt that the people training these eagles would let them do something that might actually harm them

Sheepshanks

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118 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Impasse said:


No eagles were harmed in the making of this gif.
So all that needs to happen is for the target drone to hover perfectly still and that works fine.

Impasse

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Monday 8th February 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
So all that needs to happen is for the target drone to hover perfectly still and that works fine.
No idea. I didn't invent this device.

Gecko1978

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156 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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I have never been grouse shooting or clays etc but is the solution not really that simple a shotgun? drones I assume have a fairly low flight path and so I would assume same way as a clay is shot we could do this with a drone.

Also I am gussig a large egal is much bigger than a drone and would have no issues at all taking one out of the sky in much the same way they take other larger birds on mid flight. after all it does not need to bring it down just hit it an that should see itdamaged an fall out of the sky.

Also cannot some bird hit a target at 100mph plus the knetic force at that speed would be huge an would make mince of the drone.

All in all I like the idea

Greg_D

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Monday 8th February 2016
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i thought that they already had electronic means of blocking all guidance signals and 'taking control' of the drone and simply flying it out of harms way.

It doesn't sound as good as attack eagles though....

Mr GrimNasty

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169 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Ridiculous, unnecessary, cruel, half-baked idea. It will obviously result in badly maimed birds.

Halb

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182 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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edit.
They just showed a clip of an eagle snatching a drone out of the air on the news.

Also, a leopard jumps into a school.

Edited by Halb on Monday 8th February 11:02

MikeyC

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226 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Greg_D said:
i thought that they already had electronic means of blocking all guidance signals and 'taking control' of the drone and simply flying it out of harms way.
don't think you can 'block' another Tx control unit and then take control using a Tx on the same frequency - sort of block yourself out wouldn't you?

anyway, I seem to recall there was drone which could be hacked by another drone mid-flight - sort of spread a virus via the control signals - but this is very unusual

the word 'drone' is a rather generic word, most think of multi-rotors which are able to hover.
drones which are of the aeroplane type fly alot faster so would be much harder to intercept using a multi-rotor type 'drone' and only
far better to train kamikazi pidgeons to attack drones wink


halo34

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198 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Gecko1978 said:
I have never been grouse shooting or clays etc but is the solution not really that simple a shotgun? drones I assume have a fairly low flight path and so I would assume same way as a clay is shot we could do this with a drone.

Also I am gussig a large egal is much bigger than a drone and would have no issues at all taking one out of the sky in much the same way they take other larger birds on mid flight. after all it does not need to bring it down just hit it an that should see itdamaged an fall out of the sky.

Also cannot some bird hit a target at 100mph plus the knetic force at that speed would be huge an would make mince of the drone.

All in all I like the idea
Except that;

Drones can fly anywhere up to thousands of feet and if kitted out well enough can climb pretty rapidly out of range. They can also move pretty damn quickly when they need to either vertically or otherwise.

Drones can also be pretty big, add in a decent set of carbon props on a quad upwards and its basically a flying mincing machine that you don't want to get near.

They can also be made of carbon, which is highly resilient with advanced flight controllers that will keep it stabilised and flying. If you head up in motors, then the loss of 1 even 2 or more motors doesn't mean its going to fall out the sky either.

For me this is just a stupid idea unless nailing smaller quads like the DJI Phantoms, for anything serious about doing some mischief then its going to come with its own problems - I cant see how they plan on the bird not being damaged in some shape or form.

It would be far safer to come up with a means of stopping drones entering specific airspace electronically.


MikeyC

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226 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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halo34 said:
It would be far safer to come up with a means of stopping drones entering specific airspace electronically.
yep - block GPS signals - would stop 99% of them !

ATG

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271 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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People are being a bit obtuse. The eagles are not going to get hurt because they'll be wearing crash helmets and steel toe capped boots obviously. If they had fists they'd need to wear boxing gloves, but luckily the eagles that the Met are considering all have wings instead of arms. They've thought of absolutely everything.