""The countermeasures used to defend against drones vary greatly - they have to be tailored very precisely to the situation at hand," said Johann Dauer, who leads drone research at DLR's Institute of Flight Systems. "If I want to protect a crowd - for example at a concert or a political event - then of course I don't want to cause a drone to crash," Dauer said, given the risk of injuries on the ground."
"Germany has been rattled by a spate of mysterious sightings of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), believed to be from Russia, over military bases, industrial sites and an airport. Last week the government said it would give federal police the powers to blast them out of the sky. But at the airstrip near the eastern city of Magdeburg, researchers of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have been testing more subtle options to deal with potentially hostile drones."
An ex-Soviet airfield near Magdeburg is being used to test methods to disable or capture unmanned aerial vehicles without causing ground injuries. Germany has experienced numerous mysterious UAV sightings over military bases, industrial sites and an airport, some suspected to originate from Russia, prompting consideration of powers for federal police to shoot down drones. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) focus on tailored, non-destructive responses such as nets, hunter drones with gripping mechanisms, signal jamming and GPS spoofing to neutralize threats while minimizing collateral risk. Hobbyist incursions and pranksters also contribute to airspace disruptions.
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