How can airports fight back against drones?

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1001/1536198-drones-airport-distruption-denmark-eu-summit/

by austinallegro • 10 months ago

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ggm• 10 months ago

Personally I think the primary issue is legislative. I think there are risks, of out of control drones, of spent shot falling in bad places, even of aircraft coming under fire.

There are also risks of doing nothing. It's a cost/benefit issue more than anything else, but legislative maybe has to come first: empower airport police to take action.

I think we're in an undeclared asymmetric war. Arson attacks, test runs, sovereign citizens being encouraged to take direct action against infrastructure. People are wierd, people are gullible, people are impressionable and people are angry and motivated. It's easy pickings for state actors to do arms length actions. "Here, take this smelly rag and stuff it under the nose of this person at an airport for a prank on secret camera tv" actually happened: it was a nerve agent.

Former soviet Republic nations flags being waved by .. pacific Island noumean independence rebels. Iranian agents paying Australian crime gangs to commit arson attacks against synagogues. This is not normal.

ljf• 10 months ago

While I agree it isn't right or moral, I'd argue that this behaviour has been 'normal' for a long time now - but for most of the last 100 years the main funding and actors behind the undeclared wars were the global West.

We are now in a place where it is cheaper than ever and even easier to set up attacks from afar https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/23/russian-sp...

BrouteMinou• 10 months ago

Send the hounds, err, the hawks!

pshirshov3• 10 months ago

Jamming technology, as it is currently exists, cannot be targeted against individual aircraft

What prevents me from filling the air with seemingly white noise with an encrypted digital data in it?

T3OU-7363• 10 months ago

Would your signal eminate from the drones, or a dedicated platform?

Against the drones, that would be difficult to prevent, but the limitations imposed by the transmitter gear (size, weight, inverse square law of area being jammed) would probably limit the impact.

The dedicated platform would be located via signal strength analysis and likely physically destroyed.

pshirshov3• 10 months ago

likely physically destroyed.

Not in the context of an airport security.

Concept5116• 10 months ago

Probably by not committing genocide

metalman• 10 months ago

everybody is working up fully autonomous drones russians are fielding fiberopp drones retail drones are bieng weaponised everywhere delivery drones agricultural drones search and rescue drones so, no "fighting back" , as we enter a new age of universal aysymetric warfare

prolly better to have peace overwhelm peoples desires for revenge and mayhem, but I am thinking there will be an upswing in billionares building bombproof stuff, and a lot of mayhem happens before peace breaks out

How can airports fight back against drones?

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