Eastern Railroad Discussion > Watch out for your drone...

NY Times reports European security agencies are training eagles to retrieve drones. The agencies are concerned about unauthorized incursions into refineries, rail yards, sports facilities, etc.

The training program has worked very well. The eagles see the drones as prey. The recovered drone has ID etc.

So, watch out if you're in a security conscious area with your 'bird"

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And one eagle was heard saying,   "Mmmmm  Drone....taste like chicken".

Wont the props cause serious injury to  the bird?  I wouldnt want to dive on top of spinning blades....

Interesting, but if they're that determined, I'm sure drone owners will just retrofit countermeasures to prevent something like that, like flares or electric shocks.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/16 19:48 by wheelnrail.

No place to grab mine from the top without getting its feet cut off by the propellers. Go ahead, make my day.

1976 Wrote:
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> No place to grab mine from the top without getting
> its feet cut off by the propellers. Go ahead, make
> my day.

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If US agencies decide to use the tactics of those European Agencies, I doubt the US would use Eagles for this, unless the Eagles are not Bald Eagles....Dave W

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dwi189 Wrote:
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> If US agencies decide to use the tactics of those
> European Agencies, I doubt the US would use Eagles
> for this, unless the Eagles are not Bald
> Eagles....Dave W
>
> Posted from Android

probably decide to invent an eagle-drone to intercept the real drone.  easy way to blow through 20 billion...

1976 Wrote:
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> No place to grab mine from the top without getting
> its feet cut off by the propellers. Go ahead, make
> my day.

Fly it over my property and make my day

One university here in the US has developed a catcher. I really don't understand the bird of prey thing. Seems rather like a bunch of neo-Luddites.

http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2016/january/drone-catcher-robotic-falcon-can-capture-retrieve-renegade-drones.html

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> NY Times reports European security agencies are
> training eagles to retrieve drones. The agencies
> are concerned about unauthorized incursions into
> refineries, rail yards, sports facilities, etc.
>
> The training program has worked very well. The
> eagles see the drones as prey. The recovered drone
> has ID etc.
>
> So, watch out if you're in a security conscious
> area with your 'bird"
>
> Posted from Android

Steve Krause
Chillicothe, IL

One local wag was using a black painted drone to photograph female college students in New England at night in their rooms...and now you have private detectives using them to spy on allegedly wayward spouses....companies using them to spy on workers.....business spies using them to learn how competitors operate and new processes...and on and on....

Sooner or later there will have to be regulation. All kinds of Constitutional issues ..... does the right of privacy protect a nude sunbather at home by her pool,  from overflights by drones?  ...or is that right abrogated by a drone-owner's right to overfly her yard?

The guy shooting the college students in their dorm  rooms in RI, was arrested.  ....and then there is this....

http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rules-man-had-right-to-shoot-down-drone-over-his-house/

Modern problems :)

Bob 



Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> NY Times reports European security agencies are
> training eagles to retrieve drones. The agencies
> are concerned about unauthorized incursions into
> refineries, rail yards, sports facilities, etc.
>
> The training program has worked very well. The
> eagles see the drones as prey. The recovered drone
> has ID etc.
>
> So, watch out if you're in a security conscious
> area with your 'bird"
>
> Posted from Android

CBS interview with eagle trainer says eagles have very tough feet to resist bites and scratches by prey they snatch. However they only use them on small drones.
Doubt there would be an interview if feet were being cut off

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The FAA and local prosecutors both take a dim view of shooting down a drone over your private property, even in areas where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy.  We had a thread here a few years ago on the subject.

One TX husband/father shot down a voyeur drone after a warning to its owner. He invoked and the prosecutor agreed with his claim of the castle defense. In some states, the law presumes you are defending your home/family unless proven otherwise. But you don't own the sky up to the moon, etc.

The FAA cited him with a civil fine and a cease and desist order for firing on an aircraft. He paid, and they agreed not to cite him for terrorism, which has significant jail time.

From a few months ago:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?9,3952180,3952180#msg-3952180

ClassJ604 Wrote:
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> 1976 Wrote:
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> > No place to grab mine from the top without
> getting
> > its feet cut off by the propellers. Go ahead,
> make
> > my day.
>
> Fly it over my property and make my day

I dare you to do something to my drone, properly registered, while flying and not hovering.