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New rules allowing small drones to fly over people in U.S. take effect

• jakeogh 5y ago
  Bad idea. Flight paths will be used to create private databases of high resolution information (TSCM+ a decade ago fits on these) about any target worth it. The desensitization psychology is equally bad if not worse. This "oh they have some ADSB-like-thing" is worthless. Good luck tracking a violator, like any object, these are only getting easier to create. It will become trivial to send these on a mission without comms. The big quazi-nation-state TLA front operators will do everything possible to prevent a permanent public log of each flight's path. Executing a hit will become vastly easier and cheaper. Think of them as flying supercomputers with cameras (soon to be NIR) exceeding the spacial resolution of any animal. Spare me the "can do that now" bullshit. Incrementalism is a powerful psychological warfare technique.
  • staticautomatic 5y ago
    Perhaps this will be accompanied by an increase in shotgun ownership.
    • Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
      If the drone has a good telescopic photo lens you'll need a long gun and the time/money to learn to use accurately. Shooting down a drone at 1000ft+ flying erratically at 30mph+ is worlds away from skeet shooting.