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<blockquote data-quote="Vollmer" data-source="post: 79257" data-attributes="member: 8014"><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd00zh4NGcc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd00zh4NGcc</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Dutch police may soon have a new weapon against illegal drones: eagles. <a href="http://http//www.cnbc.com/2016/02/02/police-are-using-eagles-to-take-out-rogue-drones.html" target="_blank">According to CNBC</a>, the Netherlands national police force is working with a company called <a href="http://guardfromabove.com/" target="_blank">Guard From Above</a> to train eagles to catch illegally operating drones, as well as to examine the feasibility of deploying the birds in areas where other drone counter-measures, such as jamming or simply shooting them down, aren’t safe or practical.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Guard From Above and the police are training the birds at an indoor facility in the Hague. "The bird sees the drone as prey and takes it to a safe place, a place where it is not disturbed by other birds or people," Mark Wiebe, innovation manager for the Dutch national police, said in a press release.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Besides training the birds to pluck drones from the sky, Guard From Above is determining whether catching drones harms eagles’ talons. The police plan to make a decision about whether to move ahead with the project within the next few months. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vollmer, post: 79257, member: 8014"] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd00zh4NGcc[/url] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Dutch police may soon have a new weapon against illegal drones: eagles. [URL="http://http//www.cnbc.com/2016/02/02/police-are-using-eagles-to-take-out-rogue-drones.html"]According to CNBC[/URL], the Netherlands national police force is working with a company called [URL="http://guardfromabove.com/"]Guard From Above[/URL] to train eagles to catch illegally operating drones, as well as to examine the feasibility of deploying the birds in areas where other drone counter-measures, such as jamming or simply shooting them down, aren’t safe or practical. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Guard From Above and the police are training the birds at an indoor facility in the Hague. "The bird sees the drone as prey and takes it to a safe place, a place where it is not disturbed by other birds or people," Mark Wiebe, innovation manager for the Dutch national police, said in a press release. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=arial]Besides training the birds to pluck drones from the sky, Guard From Above is determining whether catching drones harms eagles’ talons. The police plan to make a decision about whether to move ahead with the project within the next few months. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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