The NYPD plans to cast a wide net when it comes to protecting the Big Apple against nefarious drone operators.<\/p>\n
The city is in talks with Maryland-based American Robotics to buy technology that can detect, track and intercept \u201chostile drones,\u201d Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Kaz Daughtry told The Post.<\/p>\n
The company has developed a portable station that can launch two or three 8-pound drones capable of intercepting a suspect drone in midair \u2014 then fire a lightweight mesh net at the invasive drone, entangling its rotors and preventing it from flying. <\/p>\n
The Iron Drone Raider System holds smaller racer drones that can be deployed to hunt hostile drones. American Robotics<\/p>\n
The system\u2019s drones, which are deployed from boxes, can shoot nets that ensnare other drones. American Robotics<\/p>\n
A parachute then activates to bring the enemy drone down safely to the ground.<\/p>\n
The drone launchers can be used along parade routes or other large events, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have a counter-drone detection system where it will detect a hostile drone,\u201d said Daughtry, a former NYPD detective. \u201cThe net will go around the drone and it will safely land.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daughtry, who directs the city\u2019s fleet of 150 drones, has been in talks with the company about using its Iron Drone Raider System and hopes to have a deal soon, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could station it anywhere throughout the city,\u201d Daughtry said. <\/p>\n
The system, which uses eight-pound racer drones, costs less than $200,000, American Robotics CEO Eric Brock said.<\/p>\n
Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Kaz Daughtry is considered the city\u2019s drone czar and oversees its fleet of 150 drones. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
\u201cGround radar would detect something that\u2019s unidentified,\u201d Brock said, explaining that the person in charge of the drone would then press a button to activate it. \u201cOnce we locate the drone we track it and hunt it.\u201d<\/p>\n
His company shows off the tech in a dramatic video on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Brock said he couldn\u2019t identify the company\u2019s current clients because of security issues, but said they have been working with the UAE in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Detective Mike Mallery, of the NYPD\u2019s \u00a0Technical Assistance and Response Unit,\u00a0operates a drone during a demonstration in lower Manhattan. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry has been a strong proponent of using drone technology to help the NYPD. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
Similar tech \u2014 minus the parachute \u2014 has been used by the Ukrainians to take down Russian drones. <\/p>\n
Before the raider drones could be deployed in NYC, the federal government would have to lift restrictions that ban local jurisdictions from taking down flying vehicles. Right now, only feds have that authorization.<\/p>\n
Daughtry, who worries most about potential drone attacks from a \u201clone wolf,\u201d has been lobbying the Trump administration with Chief of Department John Chell to change that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hearing that the [Trump] administration is open to it,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The net used by the Iron Drone Raider System uses a parachute to try to bring down nefarious drones safely. American Robotics<\/p>\n
Daughtry has been on the leading edge of drone use as an NYPD official under Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n
Daughtry has been talking to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch about assigning drones to members of the NYPD\u2019s Community Response Teams. The drones would be launched from wherever cops are patrolling, and piloted remotely from One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan, he said. <\/p>\n
The drones would then provide video feed of suspects trying to flee and help cops find them, he said. Officers would no longer have to wait for the Aviation Unit to send helicopters from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The system tracks the drones with radar and then hunts them before it fires the net. American Robotics<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they have a barricaded suspect or a suspect who\u2019s hiding in the woods, they can just open their trunk, put the drone up, turn it on and they can run,\u201d he said. \u201cThey can just leave and the drone will launch itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The move to put drones in cars was the final phase of a program that started last year with placing drones on precinct station house roofs in crime-prone areas and using them as first responders on 911 calls.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month the NYPD had Skydio X10 drones out in droves to monitor anti-Trump protests and was able to use them to track crowd movement and deploy its officers to hotspots.<\/p>\n
A NYPD member holds a drone that was used to track protesters at the No KIngs Day protest earlier this month. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of protestors participated in the No Kings rally on June 14 in New York City. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were drones all over the place,\u201d Daughtry said. <\/p>\n
Those drones can go as high as 800 feet but the city keeps them at 400 so they don\u2019t collide with airplanes, he said. The drones give NYPD brass eyes in the sky, but can also be crime deterrents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people are committing acts like vandalism or they\u2019re about to do something we can bring the drone down real close so they know that we\u2019re watching them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
NYPD TARU Detective Tom Elliot inside a van where he and other officers can control drones in other boroughs remotely from a computer screen. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
FDNY members holding rafts that drones drop into the water to help struggling swimmers. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
The FDNY has drones that can monitor its beaches for struggling swimmers and the Office of Emergency Management has drones for use in mapping out disasters.<\/p>\n
When Daughtry first began championing drones back in 2022, he got pushback from some other cops, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey told me that we would never be able to have drones in the city,\u201d he said. \u201cGuess what? Now we\u2019re using them all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD plans to cast a wide net when it comes to protecting the Big Apple against nefarious…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21398,5755,6525,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-23646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-counterterrorism","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-fdny","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764867659675455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}