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One would have to be quite an expert marksman to shoot a drone out of the sky with a traditional rifle. Firing a bullet with a diameter of around 7 mm and hitting an airborne drone from hundreds of meters away is obviously no simple task. However a brand new rifle unveiled earlier this week might be a game changer for people and organizations seeking to defend their privacy and security by fending off snooping drones, and it doesn’t even fire a single bullet.
An Ohio-based nonprofit research and development corporation Battelle last week unveiled a 4.5kg gadget it calls the DroneDefender, which it says is “the first portable, accurate, rapid-to-use counter-weapon to stop suspicious or hostile drones in flight, offering critical security protection at home and abroad.” Whereas it’s not a weapon within the conventional sense, it represents an enormous step in the battle against undesirable drone activity.
The DroneDefender is a shoulder-mounted, rechargeable rifle-like weapon that takes drones, or UAVs, offline with a blast of radio waves. The rifle fires waves of electromagnetic energy tuned to common GPS and ISM frequencies, disabling the UAV by blocking it from receiving commands.
Radio waves from a DroneDefender should activate the disabled drone's safety protocol, making it hover, land or return to its point of origin.
Battelle says the defender could be used to protect prisons, schools or historical sites and of course has military and law enforcement applications as well. No information on the price of the DroneDefender has yet been released, but the device is expected to go on sale in 2016.
Read more: A New Rifle Shoots Down Drones Without Bullets
An Ohio-based nonprofit research and development corporation Battelle last week unveiled a 4.5kg gadget it calls the DroneDefender, which it says is “the first portable, accurate, rapid-to-use counter-weapon to stop suspicious or hostile drones in flight, offering critical security protection at home and abroad.” Whereas it’s not a weapon within the conventional sense, it represents an enormous step in the battle against undesirable drone activity.
The DroneDefender is a shoulder-mounted, rechargeable rifle-like weapon that takes drones, or UAVs, offline with a blast of radio waves. The rifle fires waves of electromagnetic energy tuned to common GPS and ISM frequencies, disabling the UAV by blocking it from receiving commands.
Radio waves from a DroneDefender should activate the disabled drone's safety protocol, making it hover, land or return to its point of origin.
Battelle says the defender could be used to protect prisons, schools or historical sites and of course has military and law enforcement applications as well. No information on the price of the DroneDefender has yet been released, but the device is expected to go on sale in 2016.
Read more: A New Rifle Shoots Down Drones Without Bullets
