Idiots with drones have shut down the UK’s second largest airport

They have created hundreds of millions in damage with a few thousand in drones, and have yet to be caught. While you may be angry with them, the facts hardly paint the suspects as 'idiots' just yet. Embarassing a first world nations military ability to find and disable a drone and its operator with a remote control heli is almost halarious if it wasn't indicitive of a gastly level of incompetince in drone warfare. Its hardly new.

So what’s the best way to take these things out if we’re not comfortable firing bullets (reasonable). I would think other drones casting wide nets might work?

I recall some airport was using trained hawks to hunt down drones. I wonder what happened with that approach.

I was thinking a kind of chaff, long wires coated in a thin film of plastic to slow their decent, fire a load of these into the air around the drone and it will come down by tieing up its propellers. I also considered rubber bullets would work too.

I wonder if an air vortex cannon could be built powerful enough to take one of these down

I thought by now all airports should have some kind of anti drone weapon to handle cases like this.

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