#Anti-Drone Market

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The global anti-drone market was valued at USD 1.2 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 5.2 billion by 2028; it is expected to register a CAGR of 26.6% during the forecast period.

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The global counter-UAS (anti-drone) market is estimated to reach $6.44 billion in 2031 from $1.57 billion in 2021, at a growth rate of 15.18% during the forecast period 2021-2031. The major driving factor for the market's robustness is the need to monitor and maintain the growing number of satellites launched.

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According to Nilopal Ojha, Lead Analyst, BIS Research, “The growing number of malicious drone activities around critical infrastructures, have propelled the demand for the counter-UAS system. Hence, the demand for counter-UAS system is expected to increase during the forecast period.”

[whentheynameyoujoy]

“By depicting Aegon as a rapist and showing his utter disinterest in his victim’s humanity HOT D clearly demonstrated his unworthiness as a ruler, nay, as a person who lives only in the now, with no mind paid to the long-term consequences, and who seeks personal pleasure without caring for the suffering or wants of othe—“

YOU MEAN EXACTLY LIKE WHAT RHAENYRA DID TO CRISTON?!!!

Man, it was funny at first but the people trying to pick sides here based on the characters’ moral credit are starting to pump quite a nuclear mushroom cloud up my ass. Both Rhaenyra and Aegon are rapists, the only difference is that Rhaenyra stans didn’t give a fuck about her teeny-tiny moral transgression because I guess it’s progressive when a woman does it.

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Global Anti-Drone Market Size & Share

[276 Pages Report] The global anti-drone market size was valued at USD 1.2 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 5.2 billion by 2028; growing at a CAGR of 26.6% during the forecast period. The rising incidence of critical infrastructure security breaches by unauthorized drones and the surging adoption of aerial remote sensing technologies to safeguard critical infrastructure are among the factors driving the growth of the anti-drone industry.

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Is There A Need For More Anti-Drone Technology? If Yes, What Are The Reasons?

Absolutely! The rise in drone usage has brought tons of benefits, but it also comes with some serious security threats. Anti-drone technology is now more important than ever. Let’s dive into the reasons why.

Rising Security Concerns

Drones are getting smarter, faster, and more accessible. While this is great for hobbyists and businesses, it’s a nightmare for security. Drones can be misused for spying, smuggling, or even carrying out attacks. This makes it crucial to have systems in place that can detect, track, and neutralize rogue drones.

Protecting Sensitive Areas

Airports, government buildings, and military zones are high-risk targets. A stray or malicious drone in these zones can cause major problems. Whether it’s disrupting air traffic or collecting confidential data, drones can wreak havoc. Anti-drone systems can safeguard these areas and prevent unauthorized access.

Privacy Invasion

Nobody wants an unwanted drone peeking into their backyard or office. With the growing popularity of consumer drones, privacy concerns are skyrocketing. Anti-drone technology can help people reclaim their privacy by detecting and stopping intrusions.

Evolving Drone Capabilities

Drone technology is advancing at lightning speed. With better flight control, longer battery life, and enhanced AI, drones are becoming harder to counter. Anti-drone tech needs to keep up with these advancements to stay effective and ahead of potential threats.

The Future Of Airspace Management

As drones become a common sight in our skies, managing airspace will be a challenge. Anti-drone systems can help enforce regulations and create safer, more controlled environments.

In a nutshell, with the surge in drone applications comes the need for robust anti-drone solutions to address growing security and privacy risks.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭: 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬

Welcome to our latest video where we dive deep into the rapidly growing 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭.

As the use of drones continues to expand across various sectors such as military, commercial, and recreational, the need for effective counter-drone technologies has become more critical than ever.

𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞: https://www.nextmsc.com/drone-countermeasures-market/request-sample

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨, 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞:

🔹 𝙈𝙖��𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬: A comprehensive look at the current state of the drone countermeasures market, including market size, growth trends, and key driving factors.

🔹 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨: Discover the latest advancements in counter-drone technologies, from RF jamming and spoofing to laser systems and drone nets.

🔹 𝙆𝙚𝙮 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨: An analysis of the major companies leading the charge in developing and deploying cutting-edge counter-drone solutions.

🔹 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚: Insights into the regulations and policies shaping the development and deployment of drone countermeasures around the world.

𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: https://www.nextmsc.com/report/drone-countermeasures-market

Join us as we uncover the fascinating world of drone countermeasures and discuss what the future holds for this vital industry.

𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJuVRxfBo-Dsog7BgDE4uPQ

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Anti- Drone Technology Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Analysis 2029

Global Anti- Drone Technology Market Report from AMA Research highlights deep analysis on market characteristics, sizing, estimates and growth by segmentation, regional breakdowns & country along with competitive landscape, player’s market shares, and strategies that are key in the market. The exploration provides a 360° view and insights, highlighting major outcomes of the industry. These insights help the business decision-makers to formulate better business plans and make informed decisions to improved profitability. In addition, the study helps venture or private players in understanding the companies in more detail to make better informed decisions. Major Players in This Report Include, Dedrone Holdings, Inc. (United States), DroneShield (Australia), Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (Israel), Liteye Systems, Inc (Israel), Boeing Co (United States), Lockheed Martin Corporation (United States), Northrop Grumman Corporation (United States), Raytheon Company (United States), Saab AB (Sweden), SRC, Inc. (United States), Thales SA (France) Free Sample Report + All Related Graphs & Charts @: https://www.advancemarketanalytics.com/sample-report/168461-global-anti--drone-technology-market Anti-Drones are helpful in countering unwarranted interruption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Anti-drones track, identify, and discover UAVs and so stop illegal activities. The military and defense sectors primarily use these. The presence of many key players within the North American region and dire instances of security breaches contributes towards the numerous market growth during this region throughout the forecast period. Drones with integrated cameras have paved expedient ways for professionals seeking the simplest way for aerial photography. However, the rising adoption of those unmanned aerial vehicles has resulted in growing safety considerations among the government enhanced usage of those unauthorized flying objects for spying through backyards and windows has enhanced the threats to national security worldwide. These aircraft systems carry with them varied sensors that are capable of recording video and audio notwithstanding the time and place. so as to counter them, makers are progressively developing innovative UAV mitigation technologies that prohibit drones from flying in unauthorized airspace. Market Drivers

Detection and Identification of These Drones Have Become Vital Factors for Security Maintenance

Rising Need for Counter-UAV Technologies In Various Commercial Locations, Including Airports, Prisons, Live Events, And Critical Infrastructure

Rising Illicit Activities and Terrorism

Market Trend

Increased the Threats to National Security Worldwide

Artificial Intelligence in Anti-Drone Systems

Opportunities

Increase in The Initiatives by The Government for The Use of Anti-Drone in Military Bases

Increasing Expenditure On R&D by Prime Defence Contractors

Challenges

Increased Usage of These Unauthorized Flying Objects for Spying Through Backyards and Windows

Reduction in Risk of Collateral Damage

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[284 Pages Report] The global anti-drone market was valued at USD 1.2 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 5.2 billion by 2028; it is expected to register a CAGR of 26.6% during the forecast period.

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Global Anti-Drone Market Size, Share and Demand Forecast to 2030

The Global Anti-Drone Market research report 2022-30 has been released with several updates and analysis of market trends, share, size, demand, growth, challenges, opportunities and pre and post COVID-19 impacts.

Key Highlights of the Global Anti-Drone Market report

The projection period for this global market to grow is 2022-30

The Global Anti-Drone Market size is estimated to reach USD 7.5 billion by 2030.

Anticipated to CAGR to reach the projected revenue will be 29%.

Covid-19 analysis and its impact on the market

Industry ecosystem to competitive landscape’s curial role in growth role

Challenges and opportunities to get boost from recent developments and technology advancement

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Market segment analysis

The Global Anti-Drone Market is segmented into these categories for this analysis: Technology, Platform Type, Application, End Use and Geography. This segmentation allows executives to plan their products and spending based on the expected growth rates of each area: -

By Technology (laser systems, kinetic systems, and electronic systems)

By Platform Type (UAV-based, handheld, and ground-based)

By Application (detection and detection & disruption)

By End Use (military and defense, commercial, and homeland security)

By Region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Rest of the World (RoW))

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Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Thales

Leonardo S.p.A.

Saab

Blighter Surveillance Systems Limited

Boeing

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

QinetiQ

DroneShield Ltd

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Anti-Drone Market is estimated to reach $6.44 billion in 2031 from $1.57 billion in 2021, counter-UAS Market at a growth rate of 15.18% during the forecast period 2021-2031.

[avedefense]

Counter Drone Market

The Counter Drone Market Industry is expected to grow from USD 3,965.0 Million in 2022 to USD 8,749.0 Million by 2022, at a CAGR of 18.7% between 2022 and 2032.

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Daily update post:

If you remember the Bibas family, they were all kidnapped to Gaza on Oct 7, the father Yarden who left their house first, to protect his family, and then the mother Shiri, 4 years old Ariel, and the baby, 9 months old Kfir.

It is now confirmed that they were not kidnapped by Hamas, but rather by one of 26 terrorist organizations in Gaza, each one so small that they're usually referred to as terrorist factions, rather than terrorist organization. This one specifically has adopted a pattern of always cooperating with one of the bigger terrorist organizations (like Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad), so we can assume that's what they did on Oct 7 as well. The first 45 seconds or so from the following vid is what it looked like when Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were being kidnapped, you can see how terrified she is...

Below is new CCTV footage that the IDF has uncovered from a street in Khan Younis, so now we know which city in Gaza the three (Shiri, Ariel and Kfir) were kidnapped to. Shiri is seen barefoot, Ariel's head is sort of visible, Kfir isn't, but it's assumed he's under the blanket, and Shiri holding him close to her body. Because this footage is from Oct 2023, there's so much we still don't know. Are they still there? What's their current state? Nobody knows, but the IDF spokesman has confirmed that there is grave concern for their lives.

Yesterday, a Hezbollah attack drone crashed into Arbel, the mountain on which Tiberias (one of the 4 holy cities in Judaism) is built. For some reason, the siren didn't go off. The drone crashed not too far from a kindergarten, but thankfully no one was hurt. In response, Israel has struck Hezbollah's weapon warehouses in Lebanon. To the best of my knowledge, they're still checking why the siren warning failed, and which country was the drone launched from, Lebanon, Syria or Iraq.

A French report says that the terror tunnels Hezbollah has been digging for years on Israel's northern border are more complex and dangerous than the system Hamas has dug under Gaza. That's what Israeli soldiers will have to tackle if the northern front goes to a full scale war. The terror tunnels Hamas has dug since 2007 under Gaza are so much more developed, extensive, complex and dangerous than Israel has realized, and the IDF has had to develop new ways of fighting in and around them, which we did not have when the war in Gaza started. Hamas' terror tunnels were estimated to be bigger than the London Tube (underground train system) back in Dec 2023, and there have been more tunnels located since. Just to put things in perspective, London's size is 1572 square kilometers (607 square miles), more than 4 times bigger than Gaza, at 363 square kilometers (140 square miles), and has a smaller underground tunnel system, according to what we knew about Gaza two months ago. But people want Israel to sit back, and let these threats to the lives of Israeli civilians continue to grow freely... Just a reminder, on Oct 7, the way the terrorists got to the border fence, to destroy the cameras there, without being spotted on the way was thanks to their terror tunnels, and those tunnels allow them to hold Israeli hostages captives, and it allows Hamas terrorists a place to hide and strike from, and it's where some Israeli hostages were murdered.

Today in our corner, "Suuuure, it's anti-Zionism, not antisemitism, but somehow it keeps targeting Jews and Jewish identity," we got two stories from the UK. One is of a Jewish family sending their baby girl's birth certificate to issue her a passport got the document back torn and defaced, with the word "Israel" under "father's place of birth" scribbled over.

The second story is of how the Amy Winehouse statue, which has stood in Camden Market for essentially 10 years, has also been defaced, specifically the Star of David was covered with a Palestinian flag sticker.

This is Elyakim Libman.

On Oct 7, he worked at the Nova music festival as a guard. Survivors of the massacre there say he helped save quite a few people. At a certain point, he went back to retrieve the body of a murdered young woman, so it wouldn't be taken hostage by the terrorists, and that's when he ended up being kidnapped himself. He's been in Gaza for over 4 months, including during his birthday. The other day, he became an uncle. He was supposed to be his nephew's godfather, but didn't get to. His family said explicitly they want no terrorists to be released in order to free him, and that if Elyakim could weigh in, he would say the same.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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On March 11, Syrian farmer Ali Ahmad Barakat was driving a tractor to his fields in the fertile rebel-held lands of the Al-Ghab plain, just a few miles away from the front line with Assadist forces. For years, Al-Ghab’s farmers had refused to let the violence scare them away from working their fields.

But Barakat was about to become the next victim of a terrifying new Syrian Army-piloted weapon: a dirt-cheap, kit-built suicide drone.

Attacking civilians with drones isn’t new, but until recently, the vast majority of these attacks were carried out by more expensive long- and medium-range drones specifically designed for military purposes—characteristics that limited them to a small number of actors worldwide.

Armed groups such as the Islamic State began to experiment with small, cheap, off-the-shelf and custom-built drones in the 2010s, taking advantage of the consumer drone boom, but their attacks were largely focused on military targets and objectives.

Now, the picture has changed.

Small, inexpensive drones have become an indispensable tool on modern battlefields, as combatants come up with ever more creative ways to use these tiny flying robots. Inspired by these tactics, some fighters in conflicts from Myanmar to Syria are starting to use drone warfare techniques recently refined in the Russo-Ukrainian War, such as the use of tiny and ultra-fast suicide drones crafted from cheap hobby racing kits, as well as consumer camera drones rigged to drop explosives, to target, kill, and terrorize civilians.

And we don’t know how to stop them.

Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in early 2022, I’ve been monitoring the crucial role of small drone technology in the conflict, motivated by the hope that better understanding drone warfare tactics might make it easier to protect civilians from their dangers.

This March, the Syrian White Helmets civil defense group contacted me. According to their information (which has been published in a recent report), more and more civilians in the rebel-held front-line areas were getting attacked with small suicide drones. According to a number of sources, Russian military specialists had recently begun training Syrian Army forces to use both first-person-view (FPV) suicide drones and anti-drone guns. Russia’s drone warfare techniques were beginning to spread.

The attacks have shocked even hardened medics. One White Helmets volunteer, Ali Obied, was in the first group of medical workers to arrive on the scene after Barakat was killed. “When we reached the site, we saw how the suicide drone attacked the driver directly—it killed him and slaughtered him into pieces. We collected the pieces of the driver one by one,” he said. They were forced to withdraw quickly from the scene when, over a walkie-talkie, a spotter informed them that other drones were hovering nearby.

Another volunteer, Walid Abdeen, responded to an attack on April 16 that hit multiple civilian cars and a public market, injuring five people. He was confident that a suicide drone was the culprit, an observation backed up by other witnesses who saw the drone in the air before impact.  “When suicide drones explode, nothing remains from it, just small pieces—but the sound of the drone is the same as those drones used by journalists,” Abdeen said.

The volunteers agreed that this similarity to peaceful drones was a problem. “It’s difficult for civilians to differentiate between them in the sky, and all of a sudden, they attack someone—a house, a center, or a car,” said Ismail Alabdullah, a media coordinator and volunteer for the White Helmets.

“Those drones, if they want to kill someone who is walking to his school, or even the White Helmets, if they’re returning to their [medical] centers—the drones can find individuals, attack the centers, kill directly,” Alabdullah added. “We have experience with mortars, rockets, and artillery shelling attacks. But this new weapon is incredibly dangerous because it is so precise and cheap to develop.”

White Helmets representatives say dozens of these FPV drone attacks are happening each week. Thanks to the terror spread by these relentless attacks, civilians who have hung on in Syria’s border regions for years are finally beginning to leave.

These drone-powered mechanisms for spreading mass civilian terror aren’t restricted to Syria: They are also on the rise in Ukraine. Targeted attacks by Russian drones on Ukrainian civilians rose dramatically this summer. And while top U.N. officials condemned this uptick in attacks to the Security Council in March, the onslaught shows no signs of stopping.

From July 1 to 21 alone, I collected 34 separate cases of alleged attacks on Ukrainian civilians by Russian drones, drawing from open-source information posted by official sources in the Ukrainian government. As in Syria, most attacks in Ukraine seem to be taking place near the front lines, where relatively short-range FPV racing and consumer drones can reach, and with the same goal of spreading terror.

On July 2nd, a Ukrainian woman was reportedly injured by an FPV drone while she stood in her backyard in Berislava. Days later, on July 11th, authorities reported that two female volunteers were injured after a Russian FPV drone hit a humanitarian aid delivery point in Stanislav. Then, on July 18th, Kherson Oblast’s governor reported that a 74-year-old man in Oleksandrivka was killed by a Russian drone attack – one of a number of older civilian victims.

Some attacks have hit moving civilian vehicles, including minibuses and personal cars—and a number of clearly marked humanitarian and medical vehicles. On Jan. 26, Ukrainian media reported that a Russian FPV drone had attacked a marked car belonging to an aid worker working with a NGO connected to the U.N. Refugee Agency’s humanitarian mission, destroying the car. A journalist who was riding in the vehicle said that it was “very likely that the operator could see the labels on the car.”

Later, on May 29, a Russian drone attack killed a Ukrainian ambulance driver and seriously injured his wife (who had been riding in the vehicle). Soon after, on June 8, Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of Kherson oblast, reported that after a spate of shelling in the vicinity of Bilozerka, a Russian drone had attacked an ambulance that arrived on the scene to help, injuring the driver.

The tactic has spread beyond Ukraine and Syria. In Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reports that Israel has increasingly turned to small quadcopters to attack civilians and journalists, while Palestinian sources in Rafah told AFP in June that they lived in fear of “quadcopter drones, which mercilessly target anyone walking.” Israel has long used consumer-type quadcopters and racing drones for military purposes, including to drop tear gas on protesters in Gaza in 2018 and to counter so-called fire balloons sent from Gaza during the same period.

In Myanmar, rebel groups fighting the military junta have become adept at using small, cheap consumer and custom-built drones for both intelligence-gathering and for attacks. In recent months, Myanmar’s junta has begun to catch up: In September and October 2023, villagers in the Sagaing region said they were repeatedly attacked by bomb-dropping regime drones.

In another incident this July, the Insecurity Insight NGO reported that armed Myanmar military drones attacked a health center in the Sagaing region, killing a midwife, her two-year-old child, and at least five patients affiliated with the local resistance forces, as well as injuring at least 15. The patients who were killed reportedly had been injured in an earlier military drone attack, and had been seeking care for their injuries at the time

Mexico’s drug cartels, too, have become frequent users of consumer and DIY drones in recent years, both for smuggling and for terrorism. Like Bashar al-Assad’s forces, the cartels appear to view these sudden, shocking drone attacks as an effective way to terrorize civilians into ceding strategically valuable territory. In May 2023, more than 600 people were reportedly displaced from communities in Mexico’s Guerrero state due to cartel drone attacks, and attacks since then in the state have reportedly killed civilians and targeted local schools.

These tactics are spreading, and there is little guidance for civilians, including journalists and aid workers, on how to deal with them. Most existing writing on the subject is geared toward attacks from larger, more powerful, and stealthier long-range military drones.

Thankfully, there are some things the international community can start doing today.

National and international bodies and organizations concerned with civilian protection, such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, should come together to strategize around how best to protect people from small drone attacks. These groups should loudly condemn the terrorist attacks and investigate possible violations of international humanitarian law—as well as sponsoring the research and reporting needed to better understand the problem.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has led to the rapid development of new technologies for detecting drone radio signals in the air, new tools for electronically disabling drones, and a wide variety of other basic drone defense tactics (including the revelation that you can hide from thermal sensors by throwing a yoga mat over your head). Perhaps some of these tools and tactics could be adopted for civilian use.

Finally, we need more collective clarity around the legality of attacks on civilians with small drones under international humanitarian law as well as the legality of civilian efforts to defend themselves. Currently, interpretation of the law doesn’t adequately account for tiny flying robots in combat. As I wrote with my colleague Ossama A. Zaqqout in 2018 (and again in 2022), the presence of identical-looking small drones in the airspace over today’s conflicts makes it very hard for people on the ground to tell whose drone is whose.

Under international humanitarian law’s principle of distinction, combatants must distinguish themselves from civilians—but unlike manned aircraft, drones are too small to carry marks visible from the ground, and they can’t respond to radio checks. We need better solutions to avoid these cases of mistaken identity.

There’s also uncertainty around how humanitarian law might apply to civilian efforts to anticipate—and defend themselves against—drone attacks. Will civilians lose their noncombatant status if they use counterterrorism tools against small drones? Do civilians lose protection if they monitor radio waves for armed drone presence and report that information to combatants—or if they post that information online in a public place?

As is the case with so many other novel consumer technologies, we’ve swiftly figured out how to use drones both to help humanity and to hurt it. But civilians aren’t doomed to be easy targets—as long as we summon the international will to find ways to protect them.