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Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by techdragon on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:14AM (#13704236)
Then they just use what the military call an "anti radiation" method of target homing.

A crude suicidal drone with programming to 'avoid obstacles' + 'head to the source of the jamming signal' + 'blow up as near to the target as possible'.

Side note: "Anti Radiation Drone" sounds like some sort of scifi awesome sauce if you ask me.

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Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by ovi256 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:05AM (#13704433)
The military already uses anti-radiation missiles with home-on-jam capabilities extensively.

Here's the US model, which will carry a 66kg HE warhead to 150 km: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

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Re:France’s military is training eagles to attack drones by dtparr on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:36AM (#13706755)
The Israeli Harop[0] and Harpy[1] are literally Anti-Radiation drones in service today.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harop

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harpy

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