War of the Drones: How Jammers, Lasers, and Nets Are Taking Down Rogue UAVs
NFL drone incursions rose from about a dozen in 2017 to 2,845 in 2023. The global anti-drone market quadrupled from 2018 to 2024 to about $2.4 billion and is projected to exceed $10 billion by 2030. Israel’s Rafael Drone Dome radar detects drone-sized targets out to about 3.5 km. RF jammers are a non-lethal countermeasure that typically work within a few hundred meters to 1–2 km, as seen with DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical and Russia’s Stupor jammer in 2022. The Iran–U.S. GPS spoofing incident of 2011 involved spoofing a U.S. spy drone’s navigation signals. In 2023–2024, the U.S. Navy began deploying