A few thousand dollars of gear can crash a GPS-guided drone

Evidence

The option of having totally robotized drones would certainly eliminate any problems involving humans in the command centers. However, it would have another security weakness: these machines would be dependent upon GPS data, which can easily be jammed or manipulated. In the course of a test organized by the American authorities in June 2012, a group of researchers from the University of Texas demonstrated how easily a drone could be brought down in this way. Thanks to an apparatus put together at the cost of a few thousand dollars’ worth of material, “we fooled the UAV into thinking that it was rising straight up.” The drone’s autopilot immediately compensated, sending the drone toward the ground. If no one had intervened, it would have crashed. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 299

Categorization

• QUESTION: How much has GPS spoofing matured since 2012? A current-state investigation would be valuable.
• XREF: connects to: Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304

Related

• Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas #expands (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304