"Alert One, Eagle One, Grab The Drone, I Say Again, Grab The Drone"

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Dutch police are involved in training birds of prey to take out drones flown by criminals and terrorists.

The police, counter-terrorism agency NCTB and the ministries of justice and defence are working on a range of measures to combat drones, broadcaster Nos says.

Video footage released by the police at the weekend shows a bird of prey grabbing a drone in its talons and bringing it to the ground. The project is still in test phase but a spokesman said there was a ‘very real possibility’ that birds of prey could be used.

‘The bird sees the drone as prey and takes it to a safe place, a place where there are no other birds or people,’ project spokesman Marc Wiebes said. ‘That is what we are making use of in this project.’

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/02/dutch-police-training-eagles-to-take-out-drones/

 

[nerfhearder]

Those small drones you get at Best Buy maybe but no eagle is gonna take out a full size one. It'd be a grease spot on the nose cone.

 

[neci]

Those small drones you get at Best Buy maybe but no eagle is gonna take out a full size one. It'd be a grease spot on the nose cone.

fucking idiot. never underestimate an eagle.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02094/bird-deer_2094466c.jpg

 

[neci]

http://i.imgur.com/oMU88wI.jpg

 

[neci]

http://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20100322/when_birds_attack_27.jpg

 

[neci]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/29/article-2079644-007C9CF91000044C-498_634x541.jpg

 

[neci]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/2c85b681a5a51ca8817363971d786224/tumblr_mrrn89zKMw1qij426o1_250.png

 

[warrior queen]

fucking idiot. never underestimate an eagle.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02094/bird-deer_2094466c.jpg

Here's the Aussie version.... https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...Fin-q2H1M:&usg=__QHfkWe6LzBH5m1_J8euivFomkV8=

 

[neci]

Here's the Aussie version.... https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...Fin-q2H1M:&usg=__QHfkWe6LzBH5m1_J8euivFomkV8=

beautiful. i bet you have some amazing birds down your way.

 

[neci]

http://topbirdsandeveryfing.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a571835d970c017c34166b47970b-pi

this guy has such a happy stance.

 

[neci]

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bald-eagle-attacks-trump-photo-shoot-time-magazine-thumb3.jpg

 

[warrior queen]

beautiful. i bet you have some amazing birds down your way.

We do but so do you!
I just wish ours weren't so bloody noisy sometimes! This morning I was woken by teensy little finches - maybe 5cm long at most - sitting on my bedroom windowsill, fighting.
I am still wondering how they could be so fucking LOUD!

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/142708.jpg

http://www.thephuketnews.com/photo/listing/2015/1431426559_1-org.jpg

https://brigitten.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/plane-crash-hudson-river.jpg

We are not talking Predator type drones. But a professional step up from Best Buy drones. 2" talons can do a number on circuit boards.

A trained raptor could take out quite a man portable large drone. They have the lifting strength to easily pick one up. We could never get a goat of the ground even for the short time it takes to drop it off a cliff with drone motors and batteries.

Train crows! Less prey focused. Cheaper. Easy to train to bring to ground drones.

 

[Noor]

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/lif...i-falconry-thrives-as-sport-garners-fans.html

 

[Sean Renaud]

We do but so do you!
I just wish ours weren't so bloody noisy sometimes! This morning I was woken by teensy little finches - maybe 5cm long at most - sitting on my bedroom windowsill, fighting.
I am still wondering how they could be so fucking LOUD!

What's a cm? Is it bigger or smaller than a fathom?

 

[warrior queen]

What's a cm? Is it bigger or smaller than a fathom?

Seriously?
A cm = centimetre.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Seriously?
A cm = centimetre.

I'm American damnit! You need to convert your heathen measurements into Freedumb Units. Also it's spelled centimeter. And color doesn't have a 'u' in it. It's spelled Soccer. Football is a sacred sport in which men deck themselves out with more armor than a modern military man and then take a knee or throw the ball so nobody touches them because it might hurt.

 

[warrior queen]

I'm American damnit! You need to convert your heathen measurements into Freedumb Units. Also it's spelled centimeter. And color doesn't have a 'u' in it. It's spelled Soccer. Football is a sacred sport in which men deck themselves out with more armor than a modern military man and then take a knee or throw the ball so nobody touches them because it might hurt.

I have tears!

And I need to clean my coffee off my tablet.....

 

[about_average]

How does an eagle know it's a criminal or terrorist drone as opposed to, say, an Amazon drone?

 

[warrior queen]

How does an eagle know it's a criminal or terrorist drone as opposed to, say, an Amazon drone?

Well, there go my new shoes