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What if mischief makers start shooting them down just for the thrills ? Since drones are unmanned there is no equivalent situation we can compare it to.
by thewarrior 12y ago
What if mischief makers start shooting them down just for the thrills ? Since drones are unmanned there is no equivalent situation we can compare it to.
- Drakim 12y agoMaybe drone delivery will be a bigger success in countries where people don't have guns and some start shooting things in the sky for fun. At least, over here in Norway, I don't see how this could be a problem, unless drones can be shot down by BB-guns.
- SEJeff 12y agoOf course it can be done, but I think you fail to realize that something the size of a dinner plate travelling upwards of 50mph in the sky is going to be a whole hell of a lot harder to shoot than say a clay pigeon. I say this as someone who built and flies a quad-rotor UAV (look up the QAV400 frame for an idea) and used to fly the Shadow 200 in the military (with 480 combat flight hours over Iraq). I'm not saying you can't shoot these things down, but people that think it will be easy have a lot to learn about this technology. Also, when people shoot up in the air, there are often unintended victims when the bullets come down.