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An owl hit a russian drone and sacrificed itself?

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Why should it sacrifice itself? There are more than fast-flying kamikaze drones. Smaller spotters or all those improvised models based on commercial quadrocopters with an AT warhead are nice targets for a properly sized bird of prey coming at them like they would hit their regular prey… fast and from top.

In fact there were several project world-wide to actually train birds to hunt down drones. Most were abandoned as fast spinning rotors can be a danger to claws when they get unlucky… but still it’s perfectly reasonable to expect a big owl, eagle etc. to down a drone.

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I took it to be a reference to the HUR MOU

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_of_Intelligence_(Ukraine)

Who might be a little sneaky over in Syria at the moment.

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What are they doing there?

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Context?

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owl took down a russian drone

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Must have been controlling it with a mouse.

Edit: and I mean a living, terrified little mouse, wearing a little flight suit and aviator goggles and slightly drunk on vodka.

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I wonder if you could train raptors to take down drones.

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yes you can. dutch police and probably some others trained eagles to take down drones, but project was shelved because of lack of interest

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I daresay interest is likely rising nowadays

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It would only be useful for protecting airports from morons. In a war you would have a shot exchange problem if you use highly skilled avian operators against kamikaze drones.

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Why eagles?

Falcons would be the logical choice, falcons take their prey in the air. Eagles however take prey from the ground.

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yes actually. I saw a video of training for this long before the war started. Surprised nobody has tried it yet, I assume it’s probably pretty difficult to fight actual birds with controllers and a ton of delay

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Well, raptors can take down balloons, so maybe…?

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I love it when a plan comes together

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