The Impact of Initial Swarm Formation for Tracking of a High Capability Malicious UAV

The use of UAVs or drones for criminal or terrorist enterprises is an increasing problem. Many countermeasures have been proposed to prevent, deter, detect and/or mitigate the dangers posed by such malicious UAVs. One such countermeasure is to track or pursue a malicious UAV back to its point of origin using one or more surveillance UAVs in order to apprehend the UAV and possibly its owner. If the...