Not the clearest of pictures but yes, it does like a pheasant-shoot and a Californian company called Epirus is showcasing its microwave weapon that makes drones drop like flies: upto several dozen at a time.
The incursions into Danish airspace and shutdowns of its largest airports reminds us of the three-day shutdown affecting Gatwick some time ago, which conveniently we forgot about as you do in peacetime.
There is some speculation that much of it was imagined, the way the good people of Salem saw witchcraft in all aspects of their life, including faces in their cappuccino.
At the time though I was building a team building drones for entry to a challenge in that same California, and sharing a real ale of an evening with... employees of one such company tasked by the government with a solution. Which turns out to have been one such device, some years sooner than the demonstration here but kept in reserve... as all of Bond's weapons are.
Their thinking at the time ~ borne out by recent events ~ was that it was tentative attempts by 'non-state actors' to disrupt civil aviation viz. people doing these things on behalf of a state but without wearing the baseball cap.
Most alarming to hear (but obvious to anyone with a science GCSE) is knowing that the same method of frying electrical equipment can be used on just about anything nowadays, given that all of it including airliners is dependent on electronics.
It is ever a threat from solar eruptions, the largest in recent history only taking out telegraphs and not Netflix subscriptions; but as ever this time round more artificial measures and counter-measures are set to be altogether different to what we've been used to.
