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A look at the growing range of drone uses in conflict and national security settings, and what it will take to secure the skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lunch will be served before the talk from 12:00 to 12:30 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u041a\u0456\u043b\u044c\u043a\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043c\u0456\u0441\u0446\u044c \u043e\u0431\u043c\u0435\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0430. \u0417\u0430\u0440\u0435\u0454\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u044e \u0437\u0430\u0446\u0456\u043a\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0447\u0435. \u0423\u0447\u0430\u0441\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438, \u044f\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0431\u0443\u0434\u0435 \u0432\u0456\u0434\u0456\u0431\u0440\u0430\u043d\u043e, \u043e\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0430\u044e\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e\u0432\u0456\u0434\u043e\u043c\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u044e \u043f\u043e\u0448\u0442\u043e\u044e.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikko Hypponen explores the evolving drone threat, the technologies used to detect and counter it, and the challenges ahead\u2014from coordinated swarms to AI-driven systems.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":130693,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_seopress_titles_title":"Fighting Drones: The New Frontier of Defence","_seopress_titles_desc":"Mikko Hypponen explores the evolving drone threat, the technologies used to detect and counter it, and the challenges ahead\u2014from coordinated swarms to AI-driven systems.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"Fighting Drones: The New Frontier of Defence","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"Mikko Hypponen explores the evolving drone threat, the technologies used to detect and counter it, and the challenges ahead\u2014from coordinated swarms to AI-driven systems.","_seopress_social_fb_img":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hypponen.png","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":130693,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":2000,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":1414,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"Fighting Drones: The New Frontier of Defence","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"Mikko Hypponen explores the evolving drone threat, the technologies used to detect and counter it, and the challenges ahead\u2014from coordinated swarms to AI-driven systems.","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Hypponen.png","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":130693,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":2000,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":1414,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"inline_featured_image":false},"event-category":[2235],"event-type":[2156],"special-filter":[],"class_list":["post-130666","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-category-ironmonger-house-talks","event-type-in-person-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/130666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=130666"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=130666"},{"taxonomy":"special-filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtual-routes.org\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special-filter?post=130666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}