REUTERS/Adrees Latif LIMITED POWERSīut U.S. Officials with the Defense Department, FAA and New York Police Department declined to comment.Ī police helicopter flies past a UAV drone Quadcopter which was flying over a post-march street celebration in west Baltimore, Maryland May 2, 2015. The sources were not authorized to speak about the effort and declined to be identified.Īsked about the development of counter-drone-technology, the Department of Homeland Security said it “works side-by-side with our interagency partners” to develop solutions to address the unlawful use of drones. The previously unreported test, which ran into difficulty because of interference from nearby media broadcasts, was part of the nationwide development effort that includes the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department, the source said.

Last New Year’s Eve, New York police used a microwave-based system to try to track a commercially available drone at a packed Times Square and send it back to its operator, according to one source involved in the test. Although the research aimed at tracking and disabling drones is at an early stage, there has been at least one field test.

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