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January 23, 2019

Drone defence industry takes flight after Gatwick

As numbers of unmanned aerial vehicles grow, so too does the need for tech to monitor and control them


Maija Palmer

6 min read

Photo by Diana Măceşanu on Unsplash

When a drone grounded close to 1000 flights at London’s Gatwick airport in the run-up to Christmas last year, it disrupted the travel plans of an estimated 140,000 passengers. But it also turbocharged a new industry: anti-drone defence systems.

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