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To that end, this work proposes a novel interception method that utilizes the swarm\u2019s onboard PID controllers for setting the drones\u2019 states during interception. The drone\u2019s states are constrained only by their physical limitations, and only partial feedback of the adversarial drone\u2019s positions is assumed. The new framework is evaluated in a virtual environment under different environmental and model settings, using random simulations of more than 165,000 swarm flights. 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