The commercialization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones means, that an increasing number of these machines are taking to the skies, posing risk to aircrafts and even helicopters used in law enforcement, as HNGN previously reported. It also does not help that there is a scarcity of rules that would regulate drone use and minimize their threat. This has prompted private aircraft companies to address the problem themselves. Airbus, for example, has announced that they have developed a system that can detect drones and kill them when necessary.
The Airbus system, called Counter UAV, is outfitted with sophisticated sensors that allow it to monitor an area, scan for drones, pick out their signals and even pinpoint the location of the person controlling the machine. It is capable of analyzing collected data before disabling the device if it poses a threat. Through Airbus' proprietary Smart Responsive Jamming Technology, the system can block, or "spoof," the frequencies that allow the drone to be remotely controlled, or it could also take over the UAV, according to Ubergizmo.
"As a specialist in defence electronics, we have all the technologies in our portfolio and the integration knowledge which are needed to set up a quick-response protection system with extremely low false alarm rates," Thomas Müller, head of the Electronics business line at Airbus Defence and Space, told the Daily Mail.
The Counter UAV System has been successfully tested and demonstrated in Airbus' facilities in France and Germany.
