France’s military is training eagles to attack drones

Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by palunon on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:21AM (#13704052)

>Building one more explosive-drone is probably cheaper than raising and training one more bird, so an attacker would just send N+1 drones against N birds

I'm not sure terrorist organisations, people using drones to fly over restricted airspace (many french cities are), etc, have the same budget than western miltaries...

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Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by lostlogin on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:47AM (#13704367)

For every terrorist organisation (whatever that means) that I can name, I can also name a nation that has funded them often western. Britain, USA, France, Israel and Russia come to mind. I'm sure others can be readily found.

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Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by cm2187 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:44AM (#13704132)

Yeah but unless a VIP constantly travels with two trucks full of birds, N will always be a small number, even if the country can afford more.

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