birds

Moderate sized birds can take down airplanes and helicopters and have done so in the very recent past.

Generally, when it comes to birds we just try to mitigate by reducing incidence rate (keeping birds away from airports), harden the planes, and then accept the residual rate.

There is a theory that falconry developed in part because birds of prey will first eat the nutritious parts of prey (i.e.

I would also imagine the method you use to make the birds take flight might also generate some publicity.

How plausible is the scenario where dictator (or may be benevolent) low tech regimes simply end up killing all birds in secure areas..

That's the primary way that birds and other debris disable a single engine.

More fun will be in optimizing stopping birds going for drones.

Exactly how lasers and birds can take down planes: very rarely.

I'm really curious about whether birds of prey might start hunting drones.

It would be interesting how they plan on detecting smaller moving objects like birds, which would be more of a challenge than a helicopter or a construction crane.

We tend to think that only we, humans, have the ability to create, but some animals create, like birds do nests for example.

The one instance that comes to mind of an airliner encountering an entire flock of birds, both engines were destroyed and they made a rather spectacular landing in the Hudson river.

I would note that the birds did not exactly survive that encounter so you can expect some protests at your "bird swarm defense" grand opening.

Birds don't have air traffic control, they have eyes and a brain and avoid obstacles and each other autonomously.

Birds do not come with exploding lithium batteries or large metal bodies like brushless outrunner engines do!

Birds are relatively soft and get chopped up by the blades.