[ExI] the eagles are coming!

[BillK]

On 10 February 2016 at 18:38, spike  wrote:
> What I meant was that radar isn’t the right tool for spotting low and slow
> camera drones, the kind of stuff you can train eagles to foil.  Radar waves
> are too long for that.  Those are better at spotting planes way out there.
> For that kind of thing, you would use a microwave emitter/receiver, and move
> up from there.  A toy drone would be easy to spot a mile away with a
> microwave detector, and the whole rig is small enough to fit in the back of
> a light pickup truck.
>
> If someone is speechifying and a bad guy wanted to launch from a couple km
> out, fly in close and hand her a small  but deadly explosive device for
> instance, it would be easy to set up a dual spectrum or multispectrum
> detector and the means to foil that plan.  I do hope this protection system
> is used.
>
> Scanning for drones is a different task which needs different tools.  We can
> do that.  I hope we do.
>


Even 80 mph drones?????

<http://www.wired.com/2016/02/video-the-drone-racing-league-officially-launches/>


BillK