Technology
The drone crackdown: if a trained eagle can’t stop them, and what will?
From internet training and guns that fire giant nets to well-trained birds of prey, previous attempts to stop the rogue using of consumer drones are actually nothing if not original.
But for those that creativity, the authorities are actually left behind. And also on Thursday, just as one unknown operator succeeded in shutting down Gatwick airport for a minimum of 18 hours by flying drones round the airport’s protected airspace, the slow pace of progress was highlighted again.
