{"id":13364,"date":"2015-08-31T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/lasers_are_the_future_of_drone_fighting.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:44","slug":"lasers-are-the-future-of-drone-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/lasers-are-the-future-of-drone-fighting.html","title":{"rendered":"Lasers are the Future of Drone Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been among the first people to realize how drones can be a major problem<\/a> for security in the world. In February 2014, in fact, I said there was a coming urban drone war<\/a> and since then, drones with guns and explosives have been created. More recently I wrote about drones almost being used to attack<\/a> federal buildings in Connecticut – thankfully without success and how a drone flew to<\/a> the White House. I even wrote about a possible solution<\/a> to the problem using microphones from SmartSense<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reality is, Drones bring another dimension to outdoor security. To date you had to worry about snipers and IED<\/a>s but in the US – these haven’t been tremendous issues. With available low-cost drones with long-range flying ability, it is now possible to reign terror on any target from a long distance. Worst of all – computer targeting makes the problem that much worse as you may never find the culprit. Recently, there has even been concern about autonomous cars being used<\/a> as weapons.<\/p>\n

Even more troubling, a drone was spotted<\/a> near President Obama on one of his recent golf outings. Traditional Secret Service techniques are limited when it comes to such potential threats.<\/p>\n

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Thankfully, Boeing has a new laser<\/a> which can be used to burn a hole in a drone from a distance of a few hundred meters. See the red arrow above which shows the fire which was caused by the laser beam. It consists of a water cooled chiller, power supply, 2 KW laser and redesigned beam director which is much lighter than earlier models.<\/p>\n

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It would seem this is the best defense society has at the moment to the coming drone threat. Still, there is a war coming between the drone-wielding criminals, and law enforcement armed with lasers trying to detonate the payload before it reaches its target. It’s really the world of science fiction becoming reality – right before our eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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