If a bird catches a UAV, it's not going to be able to carry it off either. Golden eagles in particular cannot carry very much. You can find videos of them using

If a bird catches a UAV, it's not going to be able to carry it off either. Golden eagles in particular cannot carry very much. You can find videos of them using their impressive wingspan to momentarily generate enough lift to carry dogs or goats, but that is only momentary. As you can see here [0], golden eagles can't even carry 1kg for more than a brief amount of time. And you've got to be kidding me. "Mittens of leather and Kevlar"? How about you put on some leather-kevlar gloves and then try to touch a spinning blade, with the tips going hundreds of miles per hour. It would be like a heavy caliber bullet against a bulletproof vest. This is PR, plain and simple. It's completely and totally ridiculous and wouldn't work unless the 'terrorists' were completely incompetent and flying tiny drones. (I'll remind you that a tiny drone can't carry much payload, which would probably be the purpose of a terrorist attack.) Somewhere, entirely separate from the people working on this PR project, someone in the French military is hopefully looking at realistic ways to take down drones safely, e.x. bullets. But I can only hope that this isn't a serious effort and is only PR, otherwise I'd be extremely worried. [0] https://raptorresource.blogspot.nl/2015/11/how-much-can-bald-eagle-carry.html https://raptorresource.blogspot.nl/2015/11/how-much-can-bald...