An innovative response to commercial UAV menace: Anti-UAV falconry

Abstract

As law enforcement agencies and military are on the lookout for new efficient ways in tackling proliferation of menacing commercial UAVs, the innovative practice of anti-UAV falconry referred as Low-Tech solution to a High-Tech problem appears as the effective adaptation or alternative to the set of existing anti-UAV solutions. The comparative analysis of the trained birds of prey physiology against technical specifications of common commercial present UAVs indicates supremacy of the avian hunters versus potentially hostile UAVs as per efficiency of their neutralization and safe processing. While anti-UAV falconry idea came as the result of advances in commercial UAV technology followed by increasing capacity of their untoward or hostile use its much wider operational use is not likely. However, it attracts due attention of the law enforcement as availing noteworthy advantages within urban environments that cannot be matched with application of currently available anti-UAV solutions - thus representing a valid operational asset in the common response to growing commercial UAV menace.

Keywords

• anti-uav
• commercial
• drone
• eagles
• falconry
• hostile
• police
• safety
• security
• threat