Before the above was developed they have already fielded special "missiles" equipped with low noise propellant and a 3m^2 net warhead to capture low-flying drones. They started using it to secure large events as early as 2010. This is what it looks like:
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I wonder if any other country has developed anything similar for this purpose. It is quite easy and relatively affordable nowadays to get commercial drones which you can not only remote-control, but also pre-program to fly to a location a few kilometers away with a few Kgs of payload. It's only a matter of time that some people take advantage of this for malicious purposes. There is certainly a need for anti-drone security equipments around the world.
That is very interesting, its always a treat to learn about something new you never knew about, and I thank you for letting me know about the Chinese 'skynet' (that's what the direct translation of the name of the missile would be).
If I was in charge of Chinese state security, I would have been sorely tempted to leak just the name and the fact that the 'system' was nearing operational use just to mess with western intelligence analysists.
But on a more serious note, I think the commerical drone industry really needs to be reigned in for security and privacy concerns, because the potential for misuse is far too great with the current limitless free-for-all.
A drone with even a few KG of HE can cause enormous damage since the drone can circumvent most conventional security measures and so could delivery its payload to where it would do the most damage.
Imagine someone flying a drone packed with HE into a sports stadium, or landing it on top of an oil/LNG silo or a packed commerical air liner on the ground at an airport...
But even those horrific scenarios pale in comparison to the nightmare scenario or terrorists attacking a radiological device onto a drone an detonating it high above a major population centre.
Even if the device doesn't go full critical and produce a nuclear explosion, the fallout from the dirty bomb would be dispersed exponentially wider than even a far larger dirty bomb going off at ground level.
