Voting to Protect U.S. Airports from Drone Threats: The Counter-Drone Imperative
This blog is not about politics. However, with election season upon us, it’s an opportune moment to reflect on how we can safeguard our ...
This blog is not about politics. However, with election season upon us, it’s an opportune moment to reflect on how we can safeguard our ...
When you think of drone incidents and airports what comes to mind? The Dublin Airport incidents? Or what about the Reagan Airport incident? While years ...
Five years have passed since the infamous incident at Gatwick Airport. Since then, some airports around the world started to ‘arm’ themselves with ...
As part of my role at D-Fend Solutions, I track open-source drone incidents in the public domain, which makes for a revealing journey into the world of ...
In the first half of 2023, the wave of significant drone incidents continued to capture headlines, pointing to the need for effective counter-drone ...
In my last blog ‘ Airpor t Drone Mitigation -Part 6: So, Is Jamming a Viable Solution for Airports? , ’ we discussed how a hand-held jammer ...
In a series of recent blog posts focused on airport drone mitigation , Mark Rutherford , our Sales Director in the UK, explained what is jamming, its ...
Civil aviation provides the means of transporting millions of passengers and tons of goods to all corners of the globe. In the U.S. alone, more than 5,000 ...
My previous blog examined the current state of the rogue drone threat in the context of notable incidents perpetrated by criminals across various ...
The commercial drone market experienced major growth in 2022, and this trend is expected to continue as drones become more affordable, accessible, and ...
Why Study Jammers? As a reminder of why we’re looking at jamming in this series of blogs, it’s clear that many airports either have no C-UAS or ...
In the previous post - Drone Jamming Effectiveness at Airports - we discussed the effectiveness, features, and limitations of jammers. Specifically, we ...
Not a simple issue. As discussed in my previous post ( Types of Jammers ), each type of jammer brings drawbacks and limitations to airport ...
In my last post - The Issues with Jamming Drone Frequencies - we started to dig into why jammers may not be the ideal solution to protect airports from ...
In my previous blog post– What is Jamming and How does it Work? , we reviewed “Jamming 101” topics – what are jammers, and how they operate. In ...
In my previous blog – Why Mitigating the Increase in Rogue Drone Activity in the Vicinity of Airports Has Been Such a Hard Nut to Crack – Until Now? ...
On July 21, 2022, a drone incident at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, halted flights for about 45 minutes. While this is by far ...
Drone Proliferation: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous In 2020, the total number of consumer drone shipments worldwide was around five million ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released a Part 139 CertAlert informing Part 139 airport operators that airport emergency plans ...