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(27 May 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Jersey City, New Jersey - 3 May 202
1. Drone takes off for autonomous flight

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ARCHIVE: Outskirts of Kreminna - 20 August 2023
2. Close of soldier putting bombs inside the FPV drone
3. Close of soldier putting drone in position
4. Wide of soldier launching the drone;

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ARCHIVE: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - 4 February 2024
5. Various of air defense missiles and launcher on display at the World Defense Show

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ARCHIVE: Atlanta, Georgia - 9 June 2020
++DRONE FOOTAGE MUTE++
6. Aerial of American voters waiting in line at Park Tavern

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ARCHIVE: Changi, Singapore – 12 February 2020
7. Various of drone jamming gun on display

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ARCHIVE: Irvine, California - 27 June 2023
8. The drone passes over the reserve as a commercial plane flies by

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Sterling, Virginia - 14 May 2025
9. Close of screen showing D-Fend Solutions' drone takeover software displaying data on a drone it can take over
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Themis Tzamarias, D-FEND Solutions senior manager:
"Typically, the drone takeover takes anywhere from a couple of seconds to maybe half a minute or 1 minute, depending on the complexity of the drone. But typically, it's in the seconds."
11. Various of Tzamarias pointing to screens as a team demonstration of drone takeover technology,
12. UPSOUND (English) Themis Tzamarias, D-FEND Solutions senior manager:
"Now it's in the protected area. We got takeover capability, so I'm going to do takeover. And what you're noticing now is our system is taking over. (We lost connection.) Copy that. So over there you'll notice the pilot lost connection again and he goes to a blank screen."
13. Zoom in on hijacked drone landing safely in some grass
14. Mid of D-FEND technician inspecting a hijacked drone
15. D-FEND solutions anti-drone transmitter technology
16. Close of screen displaying drones within the protected airspace
STORYLINE:
Drones have harassed airports and bedeviled local police. They've trespassed over nuclear plants and prisons. On the battlefield they can kill.

But aside from shooting the devices down, which may create further danger, there's not much anyone can do to stop drones when they pose a threat or wander where they're not welcome.

That's beginning to change. Cheap and easily modified, unmanned aerial vehicles have become a part of daily life — and a useful tool for intelligence gathering, sabotage, surveillance or even terrorism. Concerns about their misuse has spurred a technological scramble for ways to stop the devices in mid air.

Military drones are already potent weapons of war, used to track enemy movements and deliver attacks. But they've become an increasing threat on the home front too, and anti-drone systems hold significant promise for airports, water treatment plants, military installations and public events that have been targeted by drones in recent years.

The rise in incidents involving unmanned aircraft — like the wave of sightings reported last year in New Jersey — has led to more research and investment into the most effective ways of countering drones — preferably while preventing injuries to those below.

Some systems work by firing a projectile to destroy it. Others jam the radio frequencies used to control the devices, causing them to land in place or fly back to their origin. Another approach uses other drones to fire nets at the drone.









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