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It's going to turn into an all out semi-fun war of drone counter measures (lasers, guns shooting plastic projectiles) and even drones battling other drones in t
by michaelwww 13y ago
It's going to turn into an all out semi-fun war of drone counter measures (lasers, guns shooting plastic projectiles) and even drones battling other drones in the sky. This should be interesting.
- olex 13y agoShooting down a drone is a criminal offense, property damage and all that. The UAV owner would be in the right to sue and win. Also, if it crashes on top of something as a result, the shooter would be responsible for that damage as well.
- michaelwww 13y agoYou could hit it with paint balls to blind the camera without bringing it down and you could probably get away with it.
- olex 13y agoGood luck hitting the lens on a moving UAV a couple dozen meters off the ground...
- michaelwww 13y agoIt'd be a worthy challenge, perhaps involving an electronic and/or laser guidance system. Edit: I'm not advocating this and I don't have the skills, but based on what I know about Burning Man attendees, I'm predicting it will happen.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoI would imagine that a net-shooter would be the most effective weapon against drones. Plus, it's a weapon that could feasibly be operated from a drone itself without weighing too much, being too hard to aim, and minimizing human casualties if it missed.
- baddox 13y agoI think radio jamming would be much cheaper and more effective. Most short-range RC aircraft run on very widely-available consumer spectrum bands like 2.4GHz.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDrones can operate completely autonomously, with no RF link.
- baddox 13y agoIndeed, they can be programmed to follow GPS waypoints for example, but I don't think that's a common use case, especially for high production value photography/videography like the examples highlighted in the article. Perhaps it would become more common if radio jamming became more common.