Soldato
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Drones over gatwick..
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Soldato
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I agree. I'd like to see an army of security drones searching for the perpetrators drones, but realistically it's unlikely.
Commissario
I don't think we exactly find it acceptable, but I suspect we're may be more aware of the problems with things like
Firing randomly in a built up area, let alone an airport where a missed round could potentially damage an aircraft and not be spotted.
Blocking radio frequencies needed for aircraft.
The effective range of various options vs the size of the airport and speed of the drone if you say a shot gun has X range, and a good shooter has a response time of Y then you can get an idea of how many people with guns (in an area where they don't like people with guns unless they've been carefully vetted) you would need to get enough coverage to shoot a drone down, or at least have a chance of doing so.
Ditto for any automated counter measures.
How well a drone will show up on Radar - probably not well for the sort of radar that is used in airports given whilst they may have active ground control radar, that usually covers the taxiways and runways, and will likely be tuned to ignore anything under X size.
The manpower required to cover all of the above.
True, I'm agreeing with you that automation makes it difficult but I wouldn't say impossible. The thing is with this area the tech currently used generally isn't in the public domain for obvious reasons.
GPS can be spoofed not just jammed, the Russians already make use of this, sometimes mucking about with shipping, but yeah that goes a bit beyond perhaps what someone initially responding to a drone might be feasibly able to do.
I suspect that most potential drone incursions can likely be dealt with via readily available countermeasures to jam a whole range of frequencies from the usual drone frequency ranges through to mobile phone signals. But I guess other measures are perhaps needed too, including perhaps the ability to physically intercept a drone with another drone!
Caporegime
Well West Mids Police have 3 themselves. I'm sure the Met would have a few, surrounding forces will have at least one each. Fire Services even have them.
20 v 1 handicap. It'll be like Rambo but in the sky.
And I guess if it is not being controlled remotely (and therefore susceptible to the obvious countermeasures) then some drone following a pre-set flightpath would perhaps be easier to intercept, not likely going to react when approached/attacked by some drone(s) deployed by the police.
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Uhhh, yeeeesss . . . the tech savvy Geriatricograph . . .
Sounds kinda "static" to me.
Oh, no! If only the Police could find the drone operator and "warn" her/him to cease the flight.
I suspect that the Police are far more interested in locating, arresting and questioning the drone operator than playing hide and seek with him.
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Unless of course, programmed with a rough Crazy Ivan routine along the way on each route. Which makes it just as tough in that case if I'm not mistaken.
Soldato
From what I hear, since the military have setup their kit, the Drone has only appeared once but for a very short time.
I can see this drone not coming back for a few days. The risk of getting caught is too great now.
I can see this drone not coming back for a few days. The risk of getting caught is too great now.
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The Romans were way advanced for their time with their anti drone weaponry
It's a shame we have forgotten their advanced weaponry techniques
It's a shame we have forgotten their advanced weaponry techniques
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Some footage at last. That is no drone.............
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Looks like one plane is getting ready for a repositioning flight
What is up your bum? Something like this happening was easily seen miles off when drones became a consumer product and we've the square root of **** all to protect places from their influence. It is absolutely beyond a joke that a major Airport in of the wealthiest cities in the world that depends on image to sell services.
This is only going to get worse, now that everyone sees how 'easy' it is to functionally cut a major artery in the economy off, it'll be devastating.
Caporegime
Technically I guess, yes. You could rig up wireless charging, but it'd be slow as sin.
There's the option of multiple charges batteries ready, but the motors and ESCs would ruin themselves if you just used the one quadcopter continuously for 4 hours, let alone 12+.
And lol at people saying ''just follow it", do you know how big Gatwick is? And you expect there to be people available and watching for every 700yards or so around the perimeter?
Yes, whilst it's obviously great news for the passengers if the thing disappears indefinitely and they can get on with their holibobs, I'd far rather it ends with whoever's doing it being caught.
Hahahahahaha!