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Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
- dutchbrit 11y agoPeople will probably start building bigger drones with bigger nets to catch the police drones. It's just a matter of time.
- informatimago 11y agoor smaller drones to go thru the nets. or drones that don't look like drones: http://www.mybionicbird.com/ http://www.mybionicbird.com/ http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp
- glup 11y ago"Bionic Bird benefits from strict quality controls that are so rigorous that each bird is built like a prototype." ....um, what?
- jonathankoren 11y agoEhhh.... Reminds me of the story about when the Soviets were cloning the B-29 to make the Tu-4. Supposedly Stalin ordered an exact copy of the American bomber, and so the copies were made exact down to the bullet holes.
- coderdude 11y agoA flawed prototype does no one good. Could imply that the specs are high too.
- recursive 11y agoI think they might not have a native English speaker. Check out the title of this official video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFS2JWUkdvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFS2JWUkdvw
- jayd16 11y agoBegun, the drone war has.
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- mrfusion 11y agoOr bring scissors to cut the net?
- decentrality 11y agoOr drones with blades that cut as they turn.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoNone of these countermeasures will matter after the Tokyo police start injecting stomach acids that digest the victim drones from the inside out.
- ekianjo 11y agoOr you know, swarm the skies with tons of small drones making it impossible for the police to catch them all at once.
- Scarblac 11y agoThe ancient profession of netmaking will be completely relevant to high tech. Science fiction writers give up.
- awqrre 11y agoSomething like this seems like it would be more efficient: http://www.cadincadout.com/dronedefender-radio-gun-waves-down-drones-from-the-sky/ http://www.cadincadout.com/dronedefender-radio-gun-waves-dow...
- kalleboo 11y agoThat seems dangerous if the quadcopter falls down in the middle of a freeway or something
- damienkatz 11y agoRight. And therefore rather pointless as the reason to capture these drones is because of safety issues.
- michaelcampbell 11y agoSeems it would be equally effective, and a lot less weight, to just drape a bunch of monofilament lines below rather than a full-on net. Those would get tangled in the "bad" drone's rotors well enough, I'd reckon.
- adrtessier 11y agoRunning steel cable or nets, instead of monofilament wire, is pretty much SOP for denying an area from rotorcraft. There's a pretty cool article on Wikipedia about prison escapes by helicopter [1] that explains how this is often implemented in high-security correctional facilities. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...
- seansmccullough 11y agoI like it how there are green or red helicopter icons in the table to indicate success or failure.
- adrtessier 11y agoYeah, somebody had fun with that article. It's one of my favorites on Wikipedia.
- leereeves 11y agoA modern version of barrage balloons.
- shpx 11y agoBut then you don't get the reusability, unless you have spools and can cut the lines, which probably gets you back to the weight of a net.
- galapago 11y agoGame of Drones!
- usrusr 11y agoCan't decide between "fascinating high-tech solution (drone)" and "fascinating low-tech solution (net)". Which one is it?
- HillaryBriss 11y agoI don't know but my gut reaction to the video was: "That is so f---ing cool I can't even believe it."
- hitekker 11y agoI recall that in the beginnings of World War I, planes were primarily used as surveillance tools. So the germans and french would send their planes above a battlefield, and the pilots would see each other, sometimes even wave at each as they passed by. A little bit later someone brought a shotgun on one of the planes and the rest is literal history.
- adrtessier 11y agoI'm very curious as to what the reaction was of the first pilot that was shot at. My guess is he was probably be thinking more "Wow, what an asshole," than he would be thinking that the aggressor's action makes sense in the context of war.
- quizme2000 11y agoProbably the thought, "Next time I'm bringing a machine gun!"
- michaelcampbell 11y ago> "Wow, what an asshole," Which has a long history between the Germans and French...
- ekianjo 11y agoMuch longer between Brits and French.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoThat's exactly what the little drone said when it got stuck in the police drone's net.
- taytus 11y agoMaybe something like - " Bruh... Seriously dude?"
- hanniabu 11y agoThat probably was their reaction considering it's usually the governments that have issues with each other, not the people. For instance, I have no problem with Russians or Chinese, I think in general they're nice people, as with any population, but our governments have problems with each other and that causes us to fight. I get we're, for the most part, fighting the ideologies of the other country, but it's a real shame we can't live in peace. It's the few bad apples - the greedy, the criminals, the oppressors, the deceiving - that ruin it for everybody.
- npunt 11y agoWatching this gave me a distinct "the future is now" feeling. Odd-shaped hovering craft designed to take down other hovering crafts would look at home in most scifi movies.
- anonfunction 11y agoShort clip of the drone catching a drone: https://gifs.com/gif/pYYzXr https://gifs.com/gif/pYYzXr
- maaku 11y agoIt's official: we're living in the future.
- samstave 11y agoThis is beyond funny/awesome to me. Apologies that this doesnt add anything to the discussion other than my own feelings about the comic-like start to the anime-style-cyberpunk-future we have all been subconsciously building for the last 70 years....
- shmerl 11y agoIt reminds me Watchbird https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579
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- BorisMelnik 11y agoThe only next counter-logical (criminal) course of action I can think of is counter thieves using drones with nets to catch the police drones with nets.
- tajen 11y agoOr laser immolation? Or a cloud of little wires to clog the propellers? Magnetic attack? Helium balloon defense? As someone said above: Begun, the drone wars have.
- bookmarkacc 11y agoIs flying your drone away from the nets resisting arrest?
- tibarun 11y agoDo checkout: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11556902/Drone-with-small-amounts-of-radioactive-material-lands-on-Japanese-PMs-helipad.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1155690... which is linked in that same article. It makes me wonder if these drone-catching techniques will be focused on Fukushima/nuclear related protests or fly-overs to get independent radiation measurements.