Problems Due To UAVs

Problems due to UAVs
 Issues with air safety
A growing number of drones have been flown dangerously close to commercial aircraft,
violating federal rules about their operation .In July, a hobby drone flying above a wildfire
in California forced officials there to ground fire-fighting aircraft due to safety concerns.
According to the FAA, more than 650 pilot have reported seeing unmanned aircraft as of
August 9 this year, compared to a total of 238 such sightings for all of 2014.
It was late August and India's security establishment suddenly sat up after an incident in
Punjab. An anonymous caller tipped off the Amritsar (rural) police of a 'fan-like gadget' lying
in a paddy field in Muhawa village of the district. With the recovery of a second drone a
month later in Tarn Taran district, the Punjab police pieced together an audacious plan by the
Pakistan-based Khalistan Zindabad Force to infiltrate weapons from across the international
border. Four hexacopter drones-each around two-feet-wide and capable of carrying a 4 kg
payload-had flown multiple sorties to fly in nearly 80 kg of arms and ammunition, including
AK-rifles, pistols and fake currency. It was, as Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh
said in a tweet, 'a new and serious dimension on Pakistan's sinister designs in the aftermath of
the abrogation of Article 370'.
The incident sparked off concern among the police, paramilitary and the army alike. All at
once, it looked like the Union home ministry's snazzy smart-fence project-in the works for a
decade and costing thousands of crores-could prove potentially powerless for it has been
designed only to stop intruders from physically crossing the international boundary. Aerial
incursions were a different ballgame. The question everyone is asking in North and South
Block, which house the ministries of home and defence, is: how exactly do you counter rogue
drones? What would it take to stop an explosive-laden drone from flying into the path of a
passenger aircraft when it is at its most vulnerable-landing or taking off. How to stop
'kamikaze' drones from crashing into crowds at a Kumbh Mela or flying directly into a VVIP
enclosure at an important public event?
 Flying weapons
In a video published a few months ago, an 18-year old showed a handgun being fired from
a flying drone and it quickly went viral. It also brought both federal and state scrutiny to the
issue of drones being turned into potential weapons.
Military and police have already been using or considering adding armed drones to their
fleets, but these new weapons raise more concerns and questions. After the 18-year old’s use
of a handgun on his drone, Connecticut’s state senate was expected to make banning weapons
on drones a priority issue.
 Privacy
How would it make you feel if a drone flew over your house while you were sunbathing by
the pool, hanging out with your children, or just watering the plants? Your answer would
probably depend on who was flying the drone and for what purpose. But in general, if you are
like everyone else, you probably have some privacy concerns. Unmanned aircraft systems are
quickly becoming ubiquitous. The public wants to know how this will affect privacy and
what the legal limitations are for drones.
The group’s first study examined public privacy concerns related to the use of drones by
police. The benefits of using drones rather than traditional helicopters for police purposes are
obvious. Drones are cheap. They are accessible to many users. They can blanket an entire
city. And they are much quieter than helicopters. As someone who spent some time living in
Los Angeles, I can testify to the racket that nighttime helicopter flyovers make.
Data from the study revealed several interesting trends. First, while participants seemed to
understand the need for police drones, they wanted to make sure that the technology was
being well regulated. Privacy concerns were much lower when the police indicated that they
would only use the drones for specific missions and not on a continuous basis. In other
words, if the police were simply responding to an event, then that was okay. Flying drones
24/7 over their neighborhoods was not okay. The research showed that the latter scenario
generates fear of the police.
Objectives of Jads – 2
 Protocol based interdiction
Hacking into drones communication system to neutralise it.
 Sensor- Based interdiction

Disrupting the UAV’s varios flight sensors- motion sensors .Gyroscope ,obstacle avoidance
sensors and flight control functions-so that it receives an error signal ,forcing it to crash or
activate an internal safety manoeuvreto land safely .Or by spoofing a GPS signal to force the
UAV to change its pre-programmed mission plan.
 Jamming Signals
Using jammers to disrupt the frequency link between the drone and its operator by
generating large volume of radio frequency output.once the RF link is severed ,a UAV will
descend to the ground or initiate a return to home manoeuvre .Satellite jamming disrupts
the UAV’s satellite link used for navigation
 Physical interdiction
Bring the UAV down using other net fitted drones.Or direct shooting with the gun.

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