Reply to post: Re: Multiple drones/operators/battery packs?

London's Gatwick airport suspends all flights after 'multiple' reports of drones

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: Multiple drones/operators/battery packs?

If this amount of economic damage can be caused by what is effectively a child's toy, we have utterly failed as a nation.

If it is being remote controlled, triangulating a signal is trivially easy with equipment that should be readily available to law enforcement services.

If it is preprogrammed based on GPS, advanced military drones have been stolen through GPS spoofing by less technologically advanced adversaries: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/15/us_spy_drone_gps_spoofing/

And then there are all the more aggressive options. Yes, there is miniscule and mitigatable probability of property damage where the bullet might land - what is that damage likely to be vs. economic damage caused? The mitigation is that you can make sure you fire on the drone from angles that have no built up areas in the most probable bullet landing spots.

That this hasn't been resolved yet after a day is downright embarrassing.

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