You don't necessarily need to shoot down drones. You can have your drone (under registration-required size) intercept and collide with the target drone.
Or you can have your done jam the other drone and try to confuse it into aborting its mission and doing an emergency landing.
Or you could try to "swallow" the target drone and then deploy some safe-landing chute or chemically inflate a balloon to make a controlled fall.
I assume there are some property damage or theft charges, but getting around faa current regulations should be doable.
> You don't necessarily need to shoot down drones. You can have your drone (under registration-required size) intercept and collide with the target drone.
Also a crime, the same way as shining a laser at a plane to mess with the pilot is a crime.
> Or you could try to "swallow" the target drone and then deploy some safe-landing chute or chemically inflate a balloon to make a controlled fall.
Interfering with aircraft operations.
> I assume there are some property damage or theft charges, but getting around faa current regulations should be doable.
interfering with flight operations doesn't require you to discharge a gun into the sky -- that's why they have that as a separate crime. balloons, other drones, eagles, shining a laser pointer, whatever, is also illegal. woe be to you if the FAA can figure out you did it.
also true for jamming. and keep in mind the ham radio "elmers" plus the FCC -- who are very good at triangulation -- will be on your ass for trying something like that, on top of the FAA chasing you. See also: https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
all of the techniques you mentioned work for a combat zone -- e.g. Ukraine, or Sudan -- but if you try those in the US you will have federal agencies on you, and they do not mess around when it comes to anything related to aircraft. source: former EW guy, work in train/aircraft/drone control systems.
Agreed. But I wouldn't ever deploy the above with any requirement to actively provide radio comms back to me as the host. They would operate with autopilot, gps waypoints, and engage based on ML models.
Or you can have your done jam the other drone and try to confuse it into aborting its mission and doing an emergency landing.
Or you could try to "swallow" the target drone and then deploy some safe-landing chute or chemically inflate a balloon to make a controlled fall.
I assume there are some property damage or theft charges, but getting around faa current regulations should be doable.