An owl hit a russian drone and sacrificed itself?
Why should it sacrifice itself? There are more than fast-flying kamikaze drones. Smaller spotters or all those improvised models based on commercial quadrocopters with an AT warhead are nice targets for a properly sized bird of prey coming at them like they would hit their regular prey… fast and from top.
In fact there were several project world-wide to actually train birds to hunt down drones. Most were abandoned as fast spinning rotors can be a danger to claws when they get unlucky… but still it’s perfectly reasonable to expect a big owl, eagle etc. to down a drone.
I wonder if you could train raptors to take down drones.
yes you can. dutch police and probably some others trained eagles to take down drones, but project was shelved because of lack of interest
I daresay interest is likely rising nowadays
Context?
owl took down a russian drone