SkyWall 100 – the drone-netting device. image from OpenWorks Engineering website.
No, it’s not a joke. OpenWorks Engineering (www.openworksengineering.com/Skywall) has just announced their “SkyWall 100” -a pneumatically powered, shoulder-fired gun designed specifically for the purpose catching flying drones. With a range of 100 meters, and can be loaded (or re-loaded) in about 8 seconds, and depends on a digital sighting system that sounds a lot like many other shoulder-fired weapons.
The SkyWall 100 is designed not to destroy drones. Instead, it will capture them in a net -deployed from an “intelligent (and resuable) munition) – and parachute both safely to earth. The drone can be forensically examined and the munition re-used. Future projectiles are planned with jamming systems to prevent payloads from being remotely detonated.
