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bri3dtoday at 4:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Most major airports will already have a counter-UAS system, it's a huge industry.

One big issue with radar is that it has the same problem pilots and human observers do: it struggles to distinguish drones from anything else in the sky (birds, balloons, planes, etc.). This is an active and improving research space, but by and large with radar, when your pilots report a drone, you still don't know how to figure out if it's the typical mis-identification or something real.


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ck2today at 5:55 PM

I'm reading about pilots spotting drones during takeoff/landing that the airport didn't know about

And I've read about airport shutdowns in UK and US without a single arrest which is why it keeps happening

So whatever system exists, apparently not good enough