Counter-UAS — drone catalog & the legal boundary
Killinchu (Quechua: American kestrel) — the sharp-eyed falcon that watches the sky. An OSINT detection/classification reference. NO offensive content — no exploitation, no defeat instructions.
US DoD Group classification (the spine)
| Group | MGTOW (lb) | Nominal alt | Speed (kn) | Representative platforms |
|---|
Threat tiers T0–T4
T0 hobbyist T1 commercial-modified T2 military-COTS T3 loitering munition T4 cruise / above
The legal / cyber boundary (the doc that keeps us out of jail)
A commercial company MAY passively sense (RF/ADS-B/Remote-ID/acoustic/EO-IR), identify, track, predict, report to authorities, and deliver a targeting-quality data product to a customer with legal authority. A commercial company MAY NOT jam, spoof, hack, seize, or destroy a drone — those are reserved by federal statute (47 USC §333/§302a jammer ban; Title 10/50; CFAA). We sell the eyes and the decision; the customer with Title 10/50 authority pulls the trigger.
Detection mitigations: decode only broadcast identification (Remote ID, ADS-B) and non-content RF metadata (band, RSSI, bearing, hop pattern) — never the content of a command/video link (Pen/Trap Statute 18 USC §§3121–3127, Wiretap Act 18 USC §2511).
Source: killinchu/cuas/ADVERSARY_DRONE_CATALOG.md · LEGAL_CYBER_BOUNDARY.md · DETECTION_LAYERS.md