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How Hard Is It To Shoot Down A Small Drone? [Video](shooting range day & night w/tracers)
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| April 14, 2014
| Kelsey D. Atherton
Posted on 04/18/2014 9:59:56 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Moonman62
I think without a guidance system, you’ll never be able to afford the ammo it takes to do the job.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:52:34 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Seizethecarp
It makes more sense to use a transmitter hooked to a big honking amp to interfere with the radio control.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:54:43 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
To: nascarnation
How ‘bout a portable belt fed auto Gatlingshotgun hooked up to that tracking/aiming system?
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:00:31 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: shove_it
That would be a great solution.
I think with current cheap tech it would be very possible.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:01:37 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Seizethecarp
The sky is still big and bullets small.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:03:59 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: Seizethecarp
The best thing to kill a drone will be another drone.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:06:20 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: SandRat
To: fso301
Drone dogfights - kool. Sounds like fun.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:11:13 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: AZamericonnie
There are many FReepers that would LOVE a West Texas Shoot-Out like that.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:13:11 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Seizethecarp
Looks like they’d have no problem taking out an Apache chopper though.
To: Seizethecarp
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:20:42 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: meatloaf
That sounds like a good way to do it. Another way would be a 5KW green laser.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:24:03 AM PDT
by
Rodd OB
(24 year Simi Valleyer)
To: Seizethecarp
Seems like spoofing or jamming the RC ground station or interfering with the GPS navigation of an drone on autonomous navigation control would be more effective, but there are onboard drone countermeasures against jamming, I expect.
Laser zapping to melt the drone is in the works, but will be prohibitively expensive except to protect the most high-value targets of drones.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:27:57 AM PDT
by
Seizethecarp
(Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
To: Seizethecarp
I wish there had been a drone camera taking pics at the Bundy Ranch showdown last Saturday.
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posted on
04/18/2014 11:34:08 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
To: PJ-Comix
“I wish there had been a drone camera taking pics at the Bundy Ranch showdown last Saturday.”
Would the Feds have tried to shoot it down or jam it in some way is what I would want to know!
The Feds might want to withhold revealing such capabilities until a threshold level of cost-benefit of disclosure has been reached.
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posted on
04/18/2014 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
Seizethecarp
(Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
To: seacapn
Adaptive optics and diode laser 10Kw modules would reach out and touch them. That said, RC models aren’t flying based on the exact same aerodynamics effect mix as larger aircraft rely upon. And, the smaller the UAV, the more “attached-vortexes” dominate flight.
Outside of killing the propulsion module or control system, they will continue flying even resembling Swiss cheese.
To: Ozark Tom
Outside of killing the propulsion module or control system, they will continue flying even resembling Swiss cheese.If you can reach it with a laser, you might not need to kill it outright. You might be able to blind it.
To: Seizethecarp
Remote controlled model Rocket with camera in the nose and body packed full of M80's :-)
like a model Hawk Missle
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:24:47 PM PDT
by
HP8753
(Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
To: Seizethecarp
Simplest is to just not let 'em get airborne.
Take 'em out, along with the operator, at the point of launch.
Heck, take out the 'ground crew' and their vehicles at the same time.
Then skeedaddle outta the AO.
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posted on
04/19/2014 5:36:06 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Seizethecarp
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posted on
05/10/2014 7:26:28 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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