Clash of the drones

• Autores: Timothy Revell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3165, 2018, págs. 4-5
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Drones are wreaking havoc. Last year, London's Gatwick Airport had to divert flights when a drone was spotted flying nearby. In the UK, there were more than 100 incidents involving drones close to airports in 2017--the most ever, and other countries have seen similar increases. Reports of near misses are at an all-time high. So authorities are eager to find ways to bring down drones safely and reliably. But the task is harder than you might think. That's why Dutch police and the country's Ministry of Justice and Security sponsored a competition designed to test out the tech required to take out a rogue drone. Dubbed the "anti-drone" competition, the aim of DroneClash was to home in on a reliable way to pluck illegal or unwanted drones out of the sky. The organizers put up a $30,000 prize for the best idea. In DroneClash, the teams each had to defend a "queen drone" and use "attack drones" to battle their opponents. To reach the queens, the attackers had to travel through the Hallway of Doom Death and Destruction, which included a variety of counter-drone measures such as bright lights, smoke and a net launcher.