Posted on 10/30/2014 9:08:02 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
Police brass haven’t talked about drones as potential weapons, until now, CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues reported Wednesday.
The NYPD is actively looking for ways to stop an attack by a drone. The department told Pegues there is no intelligence showing an imminent threat, but over the last year the country’s largest police force has been increasingly concerned about a potential terror attack from the air by a drone.
“We look at it as something that could be a terrorist’s tool,” Deputy Chief Salvatore DiPace said.
“We’ve seen some video where the drone was flying at different targets along the route and very accurately hitting the targets with the paintball,” DiPace said.
But the NYPD sees a drone carrying explosives as the number one threat. And one video in particular was a wake-up call.
Last year in Germany, a drone was hovering over a crowd of people just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech.
It flew toward the podium and landed right in front of her.
She was smiling, but law enforcement across the globe was not.
This summer, one incident in particular had NYPD Aviation Unit members — Officer Daryl Maudsley and Sgt. Antonio Hernandez — particularly concerned. Their helicopter nearly collided with a drone that was about 800 feet off the ground.
“We’re flying in the dark; we have night-vision goggles on, we’re trying to get a job done and then the next thing you know we see this drone come up to our altitude,” Hernandez said.
The problem was they couldn’t know what the drone was capable of.
“You don’t know what the intentions are — hostile, recreational; there’s a lot of different ways you can go with that,” Maudsley said.
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The use of model UAVs as a kinetic weapon without onboard explosives or chemicals continues to be underestimated, IMO.
See:
Which terrorist would those be...Islamic or ‘We’re from the govt and we’re here to help’?
If Bloomberg were still dictator, he would just declare the city as a “drone free zone”.
Something else for Americans to stockpile before it is outlawed.
Regime drones surveilling Tea Partiers should be a larger concern.
Why would they want to kill so staunch an ally?
Threat by US gubmint using drones, wire tapping, intimidation, the irs etc
Might also be a growing concern.
Fact is the gub mint scares me a hell of a lot more
not a question of “if” but “when.”
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