World-first ‘drone killer’ can knock out aerial threat at 80 metres per second

‘Through the physical damage it essentially knocks the target out of the sky. … ‘MARSS’s focus is about protecting infrastructure and protecting people and you can imagine it being deployed to protect … large events, for instance the Olympics and big football and sporting events.

Unless it’s confirmed that the target is carrying an explosive device (or a biological weapon) how they think knocking a drone off the sky so it falls uncontrollably on the ground and people below is safer than let it fly over the people and return safely to its landing spot?

There is no way you could deploy enough of these in a way that no intruder would be able to reach a crowded area before it is deteted and knocked down. In a war zone this is a feasible tool when you have less need to worry about big bangs further away and the hostile vessels are coming from known direction, but during a peacetime against drones launched from rooftops few blocks away flying over a football stadium?

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