Taking Down Drones Is Turning Into a Big Business

  • Smaller companies are developing anti-drone technology
  • Wayward devices wreaked havoc at Gatwick airport last year
A SkyWall 100 Drone Defence System, developed by OpenWorks.Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
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Just shoot them down?

After troublesome drones infiltrated London’s Gatwick airport late last year, disrupting passenger flights and costing potentially millions of pounds in revenue, that was the instinctive question posed by the watching world.