[Deleted User] wrote: » Maybe I'm talking out my ass here, but when a drone is flying, it heats up. Surely one of those heaty-catchy-cameras they have on police helicopters would follow it handy enough to it's point of recharge?
Jeff2 wrote: » To my knowledge no. Not if they are on a preprogrammed root. I think.
theguzman wrote: » They could phone Trump to blackout the GPS over England for a while, if it was using GPS, it would veer of course and unable to find its way home it would run out of battery and crash.
vectorvictor wrote: » Whatever the motive or back story to this is, it's a huge eye opener for what can be achieved with realitively low tech and cheap equipment. Hopefully this is a prank or attention seeking gone too far but the capability to bring a major airport to it's knees so easily will surely be being watched by those with more sinister motives. I would fear this is only the beginning of both this incident and copy cat's and can't help feeling this is a distraction for something else. The level or vulnerability is quite unnerving really
Deleted User wrote: » Maybe I'm talking out my ass here, but when a drone is flying, it heats up. Surely one of those heaty-catchy-cameras they have on police helicopters would follow it handy enough to it's point of recharge?
Reati wrote: » Good point actually, If they are using ground station plotted routes then jamming won’t work only the device to take control of them will them. That said the way they are described to be moving is not a plotted route. One report I’ve read said the drone landed near the fence. If true that means there is a few of them on the go!
dhaughton99 wrote: » I’m surprised that localized radar or all the fancy equipment in an airport wouldn’t be able to pick this up and follow.
Reati wrote: » That said the way they are described to be moving is not a plotted route. One report I’ve read said the drone landed near the fence. If true that means there is a few of them on the go!
robinph wrote: » If they have seen them land by the fence then it is pretty incompetent for the police not to have been able to pick it up, or to track whoever it was that came to collect it.
Jeff2 wrote: » A programme can be run to go to x, y then random flying between x, y for what ever time on a PC. So I guess it could be done here.
Hurrache wrote: » Don't know how true or not this is, but apparently this is the latest sightinghttps://twitter.com/lord_splashy/status/1075868982899548162?s=19
ED E wrote: » And the fact that it isn't Gatwick apparently.
Beechwoodspark wrote: » Huh?
Hurrache wrote: » Someone on Twitter has said the video I linked to isn't Gatwick.
Reati wrote: » Programs require gps. I’d bet that is disabled on the hardware and these are flying manually give DJI geo would block a DJI drone. If I could see a clip of it flying I’d not be long telling you if it’s a human or computer flying.
cameramonkey wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewaCdSW4yc The Russian also it was reported took control of a US stealth drone over Iran a number of years ago. The landed the drone and reverse engineered the tec.
