The SkyWall 100 is one of the latest device promising to protect the world from the impending drone takeover. It’s essentially a smart bazooka that fires a canister filled with a net at drones 100 meters away. Boom headshot.
An operator targets the drone and fires a canister that contains a large net that gets tangled in the drone’s rotors. A parachute then delivers the drone back to earth in a civilized manner. OpenWorks Engineering is the company behind the device and is marketing the device to protect sensitive events and buildings. This isn’t something meant to protect your home from snooping neighbors.
The shoulder-mounted device uses an intelligent system that locks onto a drone, assisting the operator in firing and targeting. The scope identifies and then calculates a firing pattern based on the drone’s distance and vector. The technology sounds a lot like the systems inTrackingPoint’s smart guns that lets anyone get a bullseye on a target hundreds of meters away.
The company is also announcing the SkyWall 200, a semi-permanent launcher mounted on a tripod and offers increased range over the SkyWall 100. The SkyWall 300 is a turret-like device designed to be permanently installed. The company says tracking and detection is built into the 300 and operators can control the device remotely.
As drone technology advances, anti-drone technology has followed suited. SkyWall’s solution combine’s brute force with a bleeding edge tracking system. Other devices use radio waves to disrupt the targeted drone’s communications while other systems still use larger drones to capture smaller drones.
SkyWall has not released the price for their systems yet but says it will be available by the end of the year.
Comments
Neato: A potato cannon with laser range finder.
I don't think that the 'authorities' give a hoot about getting drones safely to ground. They just want to knock them out of the sky and pick up the pieces.
I'm waiting on someone to develop a projectile that approaches the UAV and then explodes like a flechette round into a cloud of string. The strings will foul your props, and Humpty Dumpty will have a great fall.
When will we see the electronic countermeasures merged into Arducopter :)?
What is it? About a $100,000 per shot? Plus $500,000 per system?
And who is paying for all that? Will it work against the birds?
Looks very difficult to use on a moving target. Nice commercial video, but will be funny to compare with real life results at the end of the year or later. Makes me think of a kickstarter project.
LOL, good luck with that. I'm highly skeptical of the effectiveness of it. Without computer guided projectile, will be very hard to hit.
Hmmm...I'm thinking drone SAM units being deployed.
That net launcher looks very futuristic. Its always good to see, ways of bringing down a drone safely.....