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Training an eagle is expensive and time consuming compared with the swarm. A few explodey drones and an expensive eagle fleet is toast. We’re talking months to
by KineticLensman 3y ago
Training an eagle is expensive and time consuming compared with the swarm. A few explodey drones and an expensive eagle fleet is toast. We’re talking months to years to gain a single eagle’s trust
[edit] Disclaimer: I volunteer at a raptor conservancy. Please don’t propagate the belief that eagles or other birds of prey are an effective counter-drone strategy at scale
- nozzlegear 3y agoI’ve always been curious about eagles as drone deterrents: wouldn’t the birds’ feet be potentially damaged by the propellers on the drone? Admittedly I don’t know what kind of propellers a fancy airport-menacing drone or shahed drone is using, maybe they’re just some kind of plastic.
- KineticLensman 3y agoA shahed drone is, compared with an eagle, a small light aircraft with a piston-engine pusher prop and an 8 foot wingspan. An eagle couldn’t take one down any more than it could a Cessna, essentially
- nozzlegear 3y agoAh, I didn't know that. So the shaheds are the larger sort of military drones the US and other countries use, more along the lines of reapers and predators than something like a retail drone you or I could buy on Amazon for instance and control with our phones. I'd heard some of them were being used in Ukraine as kamikaze explosives and figured they must be cheap little things being sent into targets. Thanks for the info.
- KineticLensman 3y agoGlad to be of help! >> kamikaze explosives (A couple of years ago these were called loitering munitions, with the meaning of a smallish UAV that could, well, loiter until a target presented itself. Personally I never liked the term 'kamikaze' because destroying yourself is true of shells, cruise missiles, etc etc.)