As reported by ZeroHedge and others, an anti-drone gun has been spotted in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will be held this week. Since the meeting hosts a wide variety of world leaders, the appearance of anti-drone guns is not terribly surprising. However, this appears to be the first independently verified deployment of such a device. Further, as I have written in the past, these first-generation devices have limited range. For the sake of preventing unauthorized surveillance, the currently technology likely suffices.

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Michael Braasch is the Thomas Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University (OU), a Principal Investigator with the Avionics Engineering Center (also at OU) and is the co-founder of GPSoft LLC (a software company specializing in navigation-related toolboxes for MATLAB). He has been conducting aircraft navigation research for 30 years and is an internationally recognized expert in GPS and inertial navigation.