The answer to drones near airports

Drones are often interfering with air travel. Near-misses in airport areas make headlines and airlines, pilots and travellers worry about safety. Their worries may be over, as three British companies are cooperating in developing an anti-drone ray, also known as the Anti-UAV Defense System (AUDS).

In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will soon begin trials of the ray, to detect and identify potentially dangerous or hostile drones in the near vicinity to airports. ZDNET reports about the ray and shows a video.

AUDS works by tracking the drone with a thermal imaging camera, then sending high-powered radio frequency signals to the drones, making them unresponsive to the controller. In as little as eight seconds, the drone can be knocked from the skies of up to a range of about six miles. Problem solved!

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