Drone Gun

[Hawkeye Alaska]

Droneshield

 

[AllJoy Drone Guy]

So only Big Brother can have it here in the good ol' USA.

 

[Hawkeye Alaska]

So only Big Brother can have it here in the good ol' USA.

yeah, some troops overseas been using them for nearly 3 years.

 

[AeroJ]

They're massively expensive as well, so even if they were available to Joe Public we wouldn't have to worry about them much...

 

[Hawkeye Alaska]

They're massively expensive as well, so even if they were available to Joe Public we wouldn't have to worry about them much...

Agreed.

 

[Tone-Drone]

During the recent "drones over Gatwick airport" fiasco, the manager of Gatwick airport was quite vocal in the media in his complaint that there are no 'commercially available' drone defence tools. The implication seemed to be that drone defence equipment is available, but only to the military and security forces. Maybe these guns are not available for sale in the UK either - even to major airports.

 

[AllJoy Drone Guy]

You would think that the FAA being a division of the Federal Government would have them deployed at most all airfields, especially all international ones. But not being familiar with the technology, maybe they interfere with commercial aircraft somehow.

 

[AH-1G]

You better know what you're shooting at before you pull the trigger.

 

[PatR]

The problem lies with legal conflicts. "Drone guns" are essentially frequency jammers, which under FCC regulations are illegal within the U.S. The deployment of jammers requires current FCC code be modified in a manner that allows some to employ jammers while denying others to make use of the technology. In a way the need to change FCC code was rendered pretty much moot during the passage of the defense bill that reinstated drone registration, and passage of Part 349 provided permission for government agencies to down remotely piloted aircraft.

If anyone really wants to see how effective frequency jammers can be, visit a military training range when they are flying old EW equipped A-6 Intruders or other electronic warfare type aircraft. They can turn the lights off in a city. Our military has a vehicle mounted device that can scramble pretty much any frequency at a range of several miles, and they can be used in either a directional or omnidirectional mode. They devastate the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz frequency bands.