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papa smurf

21-12-2018 17:37

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35976439)

You'd be lucky if there was enough kinetic energy in a spread of pellets to take down a drone in the 50-100 yard range

A slug at 300 yards maybe but good luck hitting a fast moving drone at that range.

They stop geese and ducks [so i am told ;)]

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35976450)

Breaking: Gatwick on hold due to suspected drone sighting.

https://twitter.com/ReutersUK?ref_sr...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

This is getting silly now.

denphone

21-12-2018 17:41

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So basically airports are at the whim of these drones unless they develop technologies that can stop them getting within a certain radius of a airport.

papa smurf

21-12-2018 17:43

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35976460)

So basically airports are at the whim of these drones unless they develop technologies that can stop them getting within a certain radius of a airport.

I read earlier that such technology was installed today.

Hom3r

21-12-2018 17:44

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OK the parties over when they catch this terrorist, sell everything he ownes to the lowet bider and lock them up the rest of their life.

denphone

21-12-2018 17:45

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35976461)

I read earlier that such technology was installed today.

Well if the reports are true it ain't working.

papa smurf

21-12-2018 17:48

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35976465)

Well if the reports are true it ain't working.

I can't find the story now,not sure where i read it ,but it was said to be an Israeli anti drone system.

found it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...twick-UAV.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-arm...ondon-airport/

denphone

21-12-2018 17:50

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35976466)

I can't find the story now,not sure where i read it ,but it was said to be an Israeli anti drone system.

Apparently they put up a drone tracking system this morning at Gatwick.

Kursk

21-12-2018 17:56

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It may not be the purpose of these drones but there are those that feel that aviation is a contributor to climate change, pollution, destruction of the ozone layer.

These are things that won't significantly impact on anyone reading this but it might be that our kids curse our profligacy.

Don't shoot me - just sayin' :)

nomadking

21-12-2018 18:00

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35976467)

Apparently they put up a drone tracking system this morning at Gatwick.

Even if they try to track where it came from, it is inevitable that the final part of the return journey will be obscured from the system's "view".

heero_yuy

21-12-2018 18:04

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Anybody who's technically savvy enough to break the Geofencing will no doubt have considered all tracking and jamming approaches.

papa smurf

21-12-2018 18:12

Re: Drones ground flights at Gatwick

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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35976469)

I am one of those that feel that aviation is a contributor to climate change, pollution, all in the name of cheap holidays - just sayin'

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35976472)

Anybody who's technically savvy enough to break the Geofencing will no doubt have considered all tracking and jamming approaches.

Probably turn out to be a 14 year old nerd with a home built drone flying it from his bedroom.

heero_yuy

21-12-2018 18:19

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Quote from papa smurf:

Probably turn out to be a 14 year old nerd with a home built drone flying it from his bedroom.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. Treating it like some video game.

Uncle Peter

21-12-2018 18:24

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Looks like they're back in business at the moment. Aurigny flight to Guernsey just taken off

pip08456

21-12-2018 18:30

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35976439)

Police snipers had a go at it (or them)

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London’s Gatwick Airport suspended flights on Friday just hours after reopening following a 36-hour closure which stranded more than 100,000 Christmas travellers when a mystery saboteur used drones to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-br..._medium=Social

denphone

22-12-2018 05:52

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Two arrests made in relation to ‘criminal use of drones’, police say.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ion-of-airport

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Two people have been arrested in connection with the “criminal use of drones” which has caused widespread disruption to flights at Gatwick airport, police have said.

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In a statement released in the early hours of Saturday, Sussex police said the arrests were made just after 10pm on Friday night.

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