Gatwick Drones

[savvypaul]

Now, you're talkin'.

Game over!!

[karatestu]

cow catapult

[guydarryl]

At best it is economic warfare, at worst attempted mass murder - imagine if one of the drones bought down a freshly fuelled passenger jet over a crowded airport.
Incredible that our security services can't do anything to bring the drones down.

[Lindsayt]

A Little Boy or a Fat Man would fetch it down nicely, and improve Crawley to boot.

[davjam13]

why couldn't they just shoot it or them down? you would assume that among the parts there would be serial numbers or such like to track where it was manufactured/purchased.

What exactly do you suggest they use to shoot it down?

How about a drone?

[Classicrock]

The Dutch have been training birds of prey to bring down drones. I think firing bullets in the sky is a risk of hitting an actual aircraft. Latest news is that 2 people have been arrested. Apparently radio blocking devices have not been used before due to arcane laws and red tape.

[Lurcher300b]

The Dutch have been training birds of prey to bring down drones. I think firing bullets in the sky is a risk of hitting an actual aircraft. Latest news is that 2 people have been arrested. Apparently radio blocking devices have not been used before due to arcane laws and red tape.

Yep, but it looks like these are larger platforms, so maybe not sutable for raptors. The problem with firing bullets is 1. they land, and can still kill, and 2. hitting a speck in the distance a few hundred feet up is not the sort of shot that happens in real life. You may have to use something like a minigun if close enough, and that would be a problem around an airport. You do realise that radio blocking is just a case of of transmitting a stronger signal, last thing we want is getting rid of what rules are left to keep RF under control. And last I heard it wasn’t certain they were under direct radio control instead of just running a GPS sequence.

I wonder if pointing a couple of radar antenna at them would do any good though.

[Lindsayt]

why couldn't they just shoot it or them down? you would assume that among the parts there would be serial numbers or such like to track where it was manufactured/purchased.

What exactly do you suggest they use to shoot it down?

How about a drone?

That is the obvious solution. The Police drone equivalent of this, preferably piloted by someone professional and competent and not by a subversive pet dog:

[slinger]

Never fear, the current government (and I use that word in its loosest sense) has a cunning plan.
Here's Liz Truss proving that she's probably never ever seen a drone...or, possibly, a dog.

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr04x_z26Is[/BBvideo]

[Lurcher300b]

Never fear, the current government (and I use that word in its loosest sense) has a cunning plan.
Here's Liz Truss proving that she's probably never ever seen a drone...or, possibly, a dog.

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr04x_z26Is[/BBvideo]

Dogs patrol, they have great hearing, detect a drone, are trained to bark at it, guards come to where the dog is barking. What is so hard to understand about that? Or do you think drug sniffer dogs at airports arrest the smugglers?