General Approach to Counter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The following study is devoted to the problem of prevention harmful missions led by small offensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The main goal of the report is to familiarize the reader with a general methodology for counteracting offensive UAV. In this report the authors state that counter UAV methodology comprise of several stages: threats identification, preparation to prevention, active counteracting, evaluation and improvement of the anti-UAV counteraction system. In recommendations, the authors describe two non-excluding practical approaches to countering hostile UAVs: offensive counter UAV and defensive counter UAV. Which concern with two different criteria: to destroy as many UAV as possible and to protect high value assets from threats of UAVs.