Have you ever wondered how much a drone costs? The market is now so developed, and there is such a wide variety of models, that anyone can purchase a reliable drone for personal use from an electronics store for 100-150 euros. And while “remote-controlled” devices were once associated with flying as a hobby, today’s private drones are used in exactly the same way as state and corporate ones. They serve functions of surveillance, monitoring, and recording; they create small private surveillance systems.
In France, private drones have now become so numerous that authorities have begun to worry about the security of sensitive areas, such as nuclear plants, military bases, airports, and telecommunications centers. Thus, they decided to deploy a package of technologies aimed at timely detection of flying drones, predicting their trajectory, locating their operators, and ultimately neutralizing them if deemed necessary. The mp200 interceptor model handles the final part of the process: capturing the unwanted drone. The photo dates from last February, from a test demonstration of its capabilities, and the snapshot is ironically contradictory: so much technology that ultimately results in the use of a tool drawn from the depths of history—a classic but guaranteed effective net.
Perhaps the plan is to be completed with high-tech cyborgs on the ground who will target the flying invaders with slingshots…