SkyPhoenix: The Anti-Drone Defense System

Several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones can hover around restricted areas or perform illegal or disruptive operations, steal critical information, affect normal operational flows within organizations, or even invade individuals’ privacy. Such vehicles can traverse areas beyond human reach, such as unfriendly terrain or otherwise hazardous areas. With the increase of incidents where such drones are used for notorious means, a defense system is needed to eliminate such targets and deter them from executing their malicious operations. The SkyPhoenix anti-drone defense system can be executed and developed as an opposing UAV equipped with certain technologies and necessary intelligence to target assaulting drones by either weakening their performance, tracking their base location, disrupting, jamming their connection, or even capturing them. The SkyPhoenix antidrone defense system can ensure the user’s safety by not having to intervene to deter a hostile UAV physically. A speedy response to threats could be realized when using a defense drone due to the quick deployment of drones, which could help minimize the harm a hostile UAV does.

I. Introduction

Drug trafficking is the illegal trade and distribution of law prohibited drugs across state borders. Chronically, criminals have long strived for more convenient and efficient tools to smuggle drugs across borders maliciously. One possible venue criminals can utilize to smuggle drugs conveniently, are drones. With the major technological advancements, drones are now available in markets at affordable prices, and most can carry payloads of varying weights. As such, criminals can load the drugs onto the drone and fly it over a distance to cross protected borders and reach the receiving destination safely. Having such transportation available to criminals can reduce their chances of being apprehended. As such, authorities are expected to adapt to the ever-evolving approaches that criminals adopt to achieve their crimes.