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Idiots with drones have shut down the UK’s second largest airport
- thisgoodlife 8y agoI thought by now all airports should have some kind of anti drone weapon to handle cases like this.
- rkagerer 8y agoSomething like DroneShield? Anyone know whether those things are effective or just a gimmick?
- Piskvorrr 8y agoActive radar? GPS+comm radio jammer? If that works as promised, not something you would like to deploy at an airport.
- chewz 8y agoDrone disabling Kalashinikv gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mlfHzg-p38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mlfHzg-p38
- Piskvorrr 8y agoYeah. A jammer. Seems to work great for tens of meters...how does it cope with inverse square law, I wonder?
- rkagerer 8y agoI was thinking of the gun. Good point though, not sure how targeted it is and you wouldn't want to miss.
- justtopost 8y agoThey have created hundreds of millions in damage with a few thousand in drones, and have yet to be caught. While you may be angry with them, the facts hardly paint the suspects as 'idiots' just yet. Embarassing a first world nations military ability to find and disable a drone and its operator with a remote control heli is almost halarious if it wasn't indicitive of a gastly level of incompetince in drone warfare. Its hardly new.
- abrookewood 8y agoMy thoughts exactly. For a very small amount of money, they have inflicted huge costs in terms of money and time. I'd expect these situations to continue to crop up ... easy to carry out; cheap; very hard to defend against and effective at gaining media attention.
- xupybd 8y agoShouldn’t it be possible to track the radio control back to the source?
- Piskvorrr 8y agoIf there is one. 10 WAIT 3600 20 FLY UP +200 30 FLY WEST +1000 40 FLY NORTH +1000 50 FLY WEST -1000 60 FLY NORTH -1000 70 GOTO 30 In other words, set your drone on the ground, drive off, and have it follow a preprogrammed route until batteries die. Never any radio traffic.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoSo what’s the best way to take these things out if we’re not comfortable firing bullets (reasonable). I would think other drones casting wide nets might work?
- theoh 8y agoI'm guessing the problem is that making the drone fall out of the sky is not safe either, in the general case. So either a bird that will grab a drone and return to the handler, or some kind of way of scooping up the drone in a net held by multiple drones seem like the best options. It's an asymmetric situation.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoThe story of weapons vs. countermeasures is for the most part, a history of just such assymmetries in favor of weapons. With few exceptions, weapons are generations ahead of countermeasures. It is still much much easier to shoot someone than to defend against being shot. It’s easier to drop nuclear warheads than intercept them, to lay mines than sweep for them, and so on. I think it’s just the usual wages of entropy, in the same way that it’s easier to spread falsehoods than recitfy them.
- slededit 8y agoRubber bullets would almost certainly work. They are apparently safe enough to fire into live crowds of protestors, so should be fine here.
- vbuwivbiu 8y agot-cell drones
- rkagerer 8y agoPolly wanna drone? https://youtu.be/kAYVyj6vf3Y https://youtu.be/kAYVyj6vf3Y
- fons 8y agoI recall some airport was using trained hawks to hunt down drones. I wonder what happened with that approach.
- ljf 8y agoSince this is a '£5k' drone, I wonder if it is too big for the hawks?
- astannard 8y agoI was thinking a kind of chaff, long wires coated in a thin film of plastic to slow their decent, fire a load of these into the air around the drone and it will come down by tieing up its propellers. I also considered rubber bullets would work too.
- DBYCZ 8y agoI wonder if an air vortex cannon could be built powerful enough to take one of these down