Gatwick Drones (7 Viewers)
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OffenhamSkyBlue
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Agreed - shoot the fucker down, or jam the frequencies these things operate on. Just imagine if these things were armed!
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Yeah, you'd have thunk, wouldn't you? Apparently they do that at military airfields and other establishments!
Get some farmer with a rifle and pay him a grand to shoot at it!
Get some farmer with a rifle and pay him a grand to shoot at it!
clint van damme
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saw some bloke flying one up the Memorial park, flying it along the path just above head height, making people really uncomfortable. Thought he was the bollocks, everyone else thought he was a moron.
His missus looked highly embarrassed.
His missus looked highly embarrassed.
Nick
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Wipe it out and stamp on it!
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Saw some bloke on Twitter saying it had prevented his grandson from being taken to see Santa in Lapland. He advised the owner of the drone to make sure he covered it in Vaseline, cos when he finds him he's going to shove it straight up his arse!! LMAO
hill83
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Yeah just rattle bullets across an airport into nearby towns ha ha easy.
If that fails nuke the whole area.
Nick
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Bullets? I was on about Rockets m8.
As soon as they enter the forbidden airspace, get rid of them. Surely they have a bigger drone they could send up and have drone dog fights in the sky? If 4 random blokes can make a robot to smash another one, surely they can make a beast of one to put up into the sky to smash it?
The worrying thing is if they had a bomb on them or something, how little can be done about it.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Police have said they don’t want to shoot it down in case they miss and the stray bullets.
Thing is now, idiots will see the disruption it causes and start doing it more and more!
Thing is now, idiots will see the disruption it causes and start doing it more and more!
Nick
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It's like when they refused to knock people off mopeds and they just took the piss.
Surely there's ways to get it down without having somebody stood aimlessly shooting into the sky?
Nick
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Nick
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Police snipers arrive at Gatwick Airport as drones continue to disrupt flights | Metro News
Could have had it sorted hours ago if they listened to me.
Could have had it sorted hours ago if they listened to me.
Liquid Gold
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There are two Wetherspoons at Gatwick, settle down and get sloshed.
shmmeee
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They wouldn’t just fall out the sky though. You’d just disrupt comma to the controls and it would carry on its trajectory. Some work entirely with on board GPS as well.
My mates Phantom drone could be set to fly a path and then doesn’t need any connection bar GPS (which you obviously can’t block in an airport Id assume)
EMP is too risky. That’s why they tend to train birds or have special drones of their own to take them down. It’s actially quite tricky to do.
Nick
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They must have a way to do it though, what would they do if it was a terrorist drone flying into the palace with a bomb on it?
It's quite worrying that it can be so disruptive.
shmmeee
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They must have a way to do it though, what would they do if it was a terrorist drone flying into the palace with a bomb on it?
It's quite worrying that it can be so disruptive.
The speed the tech came out took everyone by surprise I think. Look at prisons, more controlled and less tech issues than an airport and they have to resort to putting nets up.
Even the new laws they’re on about are basically useless if people just don’t follow them. And any tech is hackable to remove geofencing or whatever, I mean we’re talking about something any 15 year old with access to Maplin can build themselves.
Some kind of arms race is my only guess. Get the coppers trained and provide them with high power drones with some kind of weapon on. A bit like how the traffic cops have super cars sometimes.
richnrg
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not sure if nets would work at an airport - boing!
clint van damme
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just been listening to 5live, there's a 2 hour queue for a coffee!
Had some professional drone operator on said this is pre planned and deliberate.
Said off the shelf drones can't be operated in controlled air space without modification. When they catch whoever is responsible I think it's fair to say not only are they going to get a lengthy jail sentence but they're going to need an personal protection for the foreseeable future!
Nick
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That's if they do catch them. Whoever has done it could have done one to another airport and left the country. That would have been genius.
Otis
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More likely to be stupid people to be honest.
Captain Dart
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ANTIFA SJW?
Captain Dart
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What this means I await to find out with baited breath.
Captain Dart
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That may not be practical but I agree with the sentiments, someone capable who can get this resolved quickly needs to be put in charge.
shmmeee
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That’s pure bollocks. I can buy non geofenced drones off amazon right now and could build one before it arrived anyway. Most off the shelf drones don’t even have GPS (though not sure if this has been sighted as a professional >1.5kg quad or not which do have GPS, but older ones often don’t)
Agree it’s pre planned though. Flight time is usually around an hour max so they must have a load of drones/charged packs waiting to keep it up that long.