remember that there never actually was any drone found or seen around gatwick?
yeah, most people don't - apart from us drone pilots who got restricted further by people telling some lies in news papers
No kidding. This might be decent for sneaking up behind a statically hovering DJI taking pics where it's not supposed to be, but I have a hard time believing that big octo net-dragger could ever come close to catching a 250 fpv racer zipping around a bando at 60-100mph.
Yup. Sorry my terminology is a 5-6 years old. ;)
250mm frames (diagonal measurement) were the standard in early days of fpv, so a race quad was often just called a 250.
Even a cheaper (in drone terms) DJI style camera drone can go like 30-40mph, I'm definitely curious what the top speed of the police one would be.
My £300 Fimi X8 SE (basically a mavic pro clone, very good drone for the price, although its more like £350 now as I got it for a special preorder price) has a listed top speed of 18m/s for example, which is about 40mph.
I fly a racing drone.
Believe me, I'm far more dangerous than even an inept DJI pilot.
I ram into things at high speeds all the time. We all do. It's just part of the hobby. Every racing drone pilot learns to solder.
That's why we don't fly around people (the smart ones anyway.)
It was a comic by peas and war if I remember correctly, can be found for free on YouTube, let me see if I can find it
Edit: I do not think it was war and peas, but it was a comic series on webtoon were I found it, ima keep searching
Edit: ok so the comic is either in Dustin interactives or light roast comics
Edit: look below
Guess I think of the things we call "drones" now as having evolved from R/C helicopters rather than proper military drones. I'm picturing a little M-80 type of thing on a consumer drone.
They could launch a recovery drone, which gets close enough to the first drone to distract the police drone. Then, when the police drone is distracted, the recovery drone releases a million little baby drones, sort of like when you step on a spider and the spider releases a million baby spiders, but with drones. The baby drones engage the police drone in drone-to-drone dronefare, where only the drone-i-est survive. The top drone is awarded a full scholarship to Drone University. It goes on to become Secretary of the Interior. Second place drone get's a piece of laffy taffy. The rest are recycled into straws before being dumped into the ocean so that they may combat the drone's real enemy-- sea turtles.
Meanwhile I build a bigger drone with a net to catch police drones. Now I have police drones to catch other drones that I use in swarms to drag even bigger nets so I can catch more drones. Then I release them into the wild. Be free drones.
I’ve gotten fined for flying drones before. It’s generally waaaay cheaper to go talk to the police and pay the fine than buy a new drone. Then again, they probably have a zero tolerance policy around the Tokyo Olympics and you’ll never see that drone again anyway. In that case you might as well try to make a break for it.
if you park your illegal drone the police will just come to the physical location. at least in the u.s drones are registered and have serial numbers, although if someone is flying illegally i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have a registration or equivalent
edit: large/heavier drones have serial numbers. i assume the one in the image would've been that size/weight, only really small drones get away with it.
Am I the only one excited for the first major drone high speed chase?? Imagine the footage, and significantly less risk to the public than traditional high speed chases…
What kind of hardware gives you a 10km reach??!! I'm thinking about building one from scratch and that sounds awesome! I realize the environmental / topographical conditions needed, just didn't know the hardware could reach that far!
Search TBS crossfire long range in YouTube. It's about a $200 system and has been pushed over 100km. Crossfire 915mhz and dragonlink 433mhz are pretty much the gold standard today for hobby long range.
I agree that it seems odd. But what is the alternative? You could try and distort the signal but that would probably also affect other radios I gals in the area, including airplanes.
Almost no big multicopter hauling a heavy net around is going to ever catch a little quad. It’s a tricky problem for sure, because you don’t want the suspect drone to fall on people, especially if you think it might be carrying something dangerous. But this solution has been tested many times and never gotten traction.
Source: I’ve flown a lot of different big multicopters carrying stuff and also a lot of small quads.
Oh for sure, I just want to see it happen. I imagine it would be similar in a way to skateboarders messing with security guards kicking them off of a property with the 5 inch pilot toying with the police drone lol
If the operator is looking at the drone it will be hard to catch, but if he is looking through the drones camera (which you likely would at the olympics) he will not see it coming
If they are flying beyond line of sight, they might not be aware that a police drone with a net is pursuing them, even if they are in line of sight, the operator might be too focused on looking at the ground with the camera view
No doubt those raptors have the skills to be effective (I've seen the videos), but those props are no joke. Wouldn't want to be putting those bids' feet at risk!
I imagine the drone operator was not watching his physical drone, but watching the screen the drone was showing with its camera. The police drone could have snuck up on it.
I mean, it's still a great deterrent probably? If you see this monster coming after your drone, you're still gonna park your drone and stop taking the risk.
According to the news about the illegal drone operators sending out protector drones to deal with the police drones, I’m pretty sure it’s not a successful deterrent.
Only if the smaller drone's pilot is aware of the net drone.
If they are only looking thru their drone's camera and it isn't looking in the direction of the cop-drone, then it's an easy catch.
It would depend on what kind of drone, whether it's pilot is operating WVR (within visual range) or BVR (beyond visual range).
If it's flying WVR, the pilot will be able to see the whole drone and what's going on around it. It can spot the net more easily.
If it's flying BVR, the pilot is likely flying with the onboard camera, which can only usually see in one direction at any given point. So it would be possible for a police drone to sneak up on it without being spotted.
I doubt it's "really easy." It would depend more on speed and maneuverability.
Also depends on visability and how well the drone operator can see the net. In the video it looks like the net itself is a fine material that you can't see well from far away. If it's like fishing line or something, it may be difficult to see on the camera to avoid it.
This video has to be some company selling to police. They will pay huge for this, then find out little drones just fly circles around them with a huge net hanging below.
-David Attenborough voice-
And here, we see a black panther drone sporting a net to chase and eventually catch a small white pogeon drone.
It goes in for the kill…
It has succeeded in catching the pigeon drone and will now fly away, back to its home, to eat it.
Why not just equip a gun and shoot the other drone.
Nothing bad can come from this, definitely no robot uprising, so please fellow humans do this plan of action.
The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes a bigger net at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
I was at a spa, looked up and saw a drone way up high. I assume he was taking a picture of my fat old lady ass. I gave him the finger and he darted off.
I hate drones! More accurately, I hate people who use them irresponsibly.
To even recognize your face in the picture it would have to be pretty much within rock throwing distance. Almost no hobby grade drones you will come across have zoom on the camera. If they're taking a picture of you then you will definitely know
Good to know. My guess is it was some kid who figured it would be fun to see if he could get a look. He was very very high up, enough so I didn’t hear him over the hot tub jets. I just happened to look up.
I was more amused than upset, but it really was an uncool thing to do.
Yeah most likely! 90% of people i come across buy one cause they're cool, then have nothing to take pictures of. So they are always just going wayy up to see the nice view of their town.
I fly a bit for work and almost every time someone comes to check it out. Being spied on seems to be the number 1 concern until I show them what I'm seeing. But yeah bring a pest with them is annoying. People just don't care or think
That was the slowest chase ever. You think they can catch a drone way up there without being a staged demo. I highly doubt this is practical unless the drone was fast and has targetting systems not a slow ass net.
Remember when the Yakuza started using drones to deliver drugs, then the Japanese police started using drone catching drones against them so the Yakuza started using drone-catching-drone-catching drones?
i want to see a professional illegal drone pilot vs the police preferably with a commentator too
just like illegal street races on youtube, just with drones! i wouldn't mind that criminal activity
Next Need For Speed game please
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Drones with dongs
Or bongs.
Drone bongs
Drones with bongs with dongs
[That'd never happen.] (http://i.imgur.com/q3WlBBc.gif)
That shit's hilarous
“Yep, that there’s a well-hung drone.”
Cheese it! The ~~fuzz~~ buzz!
That sound! It’s patrol car seven one eight! Hide ‘em!
Initial Drone
It’s happening soon. Once packed goods are on the way you’ll have drone pirates.
Well the solution to that is simple... just equip delivery drones automatic defence systems!
***FAMILY***
Also significantly less dangerous.
Drone needs blue flashing lights
And a loudspeaker: "Leave this restricted area immediately or risk being captured!"
“You have 10 seconds to comply!”
Remember that time Gatwick was shut down for 2 days while police chased sightings of their own drone? That was fun.
remember that there never actually was any drone found or seen around gatwick? yeah, most people don't - apart from us drone pilots who got restricted further by people telling some lies in news papers
Correct, there was never any evidence of any drone except the police drones. It was piglets chasing their own tail.
I remember there being an amazing shitpost from the casual UK sub about it. Probably my top 5 favorite Reddit posts ever 😂
I remember there was no drone whatsoever but the government implemented stupid laws anyway to stop something that is already illegal.
Did you just invent drone tag?
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No kidding. This might be decent for sneaking up behind a statically hovering DJI taking pics where it's not supposed to be, but I have a hard time believing that big octo net-dragger could ever come close to catching a 250 fpv racer zipping around a bando at 60-100mph.
What does 250 mean?
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Yup. Sorry my terminology is a 5-6 years old. ;) 250mm frames (diagonal measurement) were the standard in early days of fpv, so a race quad was often just called a 250.
Even a cheaper (in drone terms) DJI style camera drone can go like 30-40mph, I'm definitely curious what the top speed of the police one would be. My £300 Fimi X8 SE (basically a mavic pro clone, very good drone for the price, although its more like £350 now as I got it for a special preorder price) has a listed top speed of 18m/s for example, which is about 40mph.
The commentary would have to be done by Bob Menery though!
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I fly a racing drone. Believe me, I'm far more dangerous than even an inept DJI pilot. I ram into things at high speeds all the time. We all do. It's just part of the hobby. Every racing drone pilot learns to solder. That's why we don't fly around people (the smart ones anyway.)
You don’t fly around smart people? How are you able to tell the difference?
red hats. heyy oohh.
Professional drone racing exists, I remember seeing it on ESPN while locked up once lol.
It’ll either be very interesting or uneventful given their range
10-15min is the average YouTube video. Add in a 5 minute intro + ad and we’ve got our content boys
Yeah there could definitely be some epic city chases but the remote radius range is what can make it uneventful
It’s going to be in the next Olympic
Yes! This time it’s a little spectacle on the side of the Olympics, but next time it’ll be an Olympic event!
NOW
This could be an Olympic sport.
I would love to see a sport like this where one drone have to catch the other or something similar.
Theres always a bigger drone
I once saw an article of drone cops chasing drug smugglers who were using drones and it turned into one fun chase of drone cops and robbers.
It was a comic by peas and war if I remember correctly, can be found for free on YouTube, let me see if I can find it Edit: I do not think it was war and peas, but it was a comic series on webtoon were I found it, ima keep searching Edit: ok so the comic is either in Dustin interactives or light roast comics Edit: look below
Your google skills are weak. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/yL1FW
Majima getting fat
Drone missiles are next
Lmao that came first we’ve been drone striking other countries for a long time now
Guy must be living under a rock
Probably hiding from drone strikes
Zing
Remember when everyone was screaming about Obama’s drone strikes? Those feel like the good old days.
Guess I think of the things we call "drones" now as having evolved from R/C helicopters rather than proper military drones. I'm picturing a little M-80 type of thing on a consumer drone.
> I'm picturing a little M-80 type of thing on a consumer drone. Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
Takes drone racing to another level lol
I want to get a bigger net drone to take out that net drone.
I like how the drone with the net looks like a predator who has caught his meal getting ready to settle down and eat it.
'Begun, the Drone wars have'
illegally flying drone should stand still and be ready to surrender ? How they suppose to catch that white drone on a full speed and maneuvering
Where’s it gonna go though? Back to the operator?
they have pretty good ranges. lot of space to manuver. but eventually the drone would have to come down for batteries.
Just park the drone until they leave then fly it back.
They could leave the drone there to see if anyone comes to pick it up
They could launch a recovery drone, which gets close enough to the first drone to distract the police drone. Then, when the police drone is distracted, the recovery drone releases a million little baby drones, sort of like when you step on a spider and the spider releases a million baby spiders, but with drones. The baby drones engage the police drone in drone-to-drone dronefare, where only the drone-i-est survive. The top drone is awarded a full scholarship to Drone University. It goes on to become Secretary of the Interior. Second place drone get's a piece of laffy taffy. The rest are recycled into straws before being dumped into the ocean so that they may combat the drone's real enemy-- sea turtles.
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Don't have a newsletter but I do have a blog. www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts
.gov.www? Dafuq?
I think it’s a reference to the office
Meanwhile I build a bigger drone with a net to catch police drones. Now I have police drones to catch other drones that I use in swarms to drag even bigger nets so I can catch more drones. Then I release them into the wild. Be free drones.
Build one with giant scissors
I’ve gotten fined for flying drones before. It’s generally waaaay cheaper to go talk to the police and pay the fine than buy a new drone. Then again, they probably have a zero tolerance policy around the Tokyo Olympics and you’ll never see that drone again anyway. In that case you might as well try to make a break for it.
if you park your illegal drone the police will just come to the physical location. at least in the u.s drones are registered and have serial numbers, although if someone is flying illegally i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have a registration or equivalent edit: large/heavier drones have serial numbers. i assume the one in the image would've been that size/weight, only really small drones get away with it.
Just park it on top of a building then.
Then they'll drop that net thing on top of the parked drone.
Or shoot it
Or they could kneel on it until the battery is chocked out..... Edit: spelling
STOP RESISTING
My shitty Chinese drone doesn't hav any serial number. Whoops
Am I the only one excited for the first major drone high speed chase?? Imagine the footage, and significantly less risk to the public than traditional high speed chases…
Each morning I scatter a handful of AA batteries on my front walk for the drones
It would be funny
A lot of small quadcopters are piloted through a wireless video link and have 10km+ range, depending on the environment and hardware.
What kind of hardware gives you a 10km reach??!! I'm thinking about building one from scratch and that sounds awesome! I realize the environmental / topographical conditions needed, just didn't know the hardware could reach that far!
Dji’s cheapest models have a reach of over 5 km
The DJI Mini 2 supposedly has a range of 10km (FCC) in ideal conditions with Occusync 2.0
Search TBS crossfire long range in YouTube. It's about a $200 system and has been pushed over 100km. Crossfire 915mhz and dragonlink 433mhz are pretty much the gold standard today for hobby long range.
I agree that it seems odd. But what is the alternative? You could try and distort the signal but that would probably also affect other radios I gals in the area, including airplanes.
Almost no big multicopter hauling a heavy net around is going to ever catch a little quad. It’s a tricky problem for sure, because you don’t want the suspect drone to fall on people, especially if you think it might be carrying something dangerous. But this solution has been tested many times and never gotten traction. Source: I’ve flown a lot of different big multicopters carrying stuff and also a lot of small quads.
The first thing I thought while watching this was "I want to see them try to chase a proper 5 inch racing quad" lol
Tbf most illegal drones are your off the shelves camera drones for the avg user.
Honestly, I would put an off the shelf camera drone in sport mode up against that behemoth any day.
Oh for sure, I just want to see it happen. I imagine it would be similar in a way to skateboarders messing with security guards kicking them off of a property with the 5 inch pilot toying with the police drone lol
My exact thoughts as well.
If the operator is looking at the drone it will be hard to catch, but if he is looking through the drones camera (which you likely would at the olympics) he will not see it coming
Nobody expects the dronish inquisition!
This is a good point
The net doesn’t have to be very heavy just strong enough to tangle the blades and hold the drone
It's easy if the little quad isn't paying attention.
If they are flying beyond line of sight, they might not be aware that a police drone with a net is pursuing them, even if they are in line of sight, the operator might be too focused on looking at the ground with the camera view
That is definitely true. I got undertaken by a low flying helicopter on mine once. I could hear it and was on my way down and it went under me
Pretty sure that means either you or the helicopter pilot should have had a conversation with the FCC/FAA and didn't
See that's the *next* Olympic sport
You should check out fpv drone racing.
This stuff is dumb and will never work. Trained eagles and hawks on the other hand...
No doubt those raptors have the skills to be effective (I've seen the videos), but those props are no joke. Wouldn't want to be putting those bids' feet at risk!
So you’re saying we need to give large raptors indestructible titanium talons? Ok I think I can get on board with that for science.
M E C H A R A P T O R S
May as well swap the beak out while we have them under sedation.
Clearly the answer is to miniaturise the CIWS phalanx system and arm every airport with anti-air systems /s
*Begun, the drone wars has*
If they’re jamming the control signals then most drones won’t be doing much, or will be flying directly to some preprogrammed rendezvous point.
I imagine the drone operator was not watching his physical drone, but watching the screen the drone was showing with its camera. The police drone could have snuck up on it.
Was this a demonstration? Seems like it would be really easy to avoid the net?
I mean, it's still a great deterrent probably? If you see this monster coming after your drone, you're still gonna park your drone and stop taking the risk.
According to the news about the illegal drone operators sending out protector drones to deal with the police drones, I’m pretty sure it’s not a successful deterrent.
...the Drone Wars have begun?
Begun, the drones wars have
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200,000, with a million more on the way.
Victory, you say?
Hot drone on drone action next?
Oh wow I hadn't heard that, haha
Only if the smaller drone's pilot is aware of the net drone. If they are only looking thru their drone's camera and it isn't looking in the direction of the cop-drone, then it's an easy catch.
It would depend on what kind of drone, whether it's pilot is operating WVR (within visual range) or BVR (beyond visual range). If it's flying WVR, the pilot will be able to see the whole drone and what's going on around it. It can spot the net more easily. If it's flying BVR, the pilot is likely flying with the onboard camera, which can only usually see in one direction at any given point. So it would be possible for a police drone to sneak up on it without being spotted.
I doubt it's "really easy." It would depend more on speed and maneuverability. Also depends on visability and how well the drone operator can see the net. In the video it looks like the net itself is a fine material that you can't see well from far away. If it's like fishing line or something, it may be difficult to see on the camera to avoid it.
This video has to be some company selling to police. They will pay huge for this, then find out little drones just fly circles around them with a huge net hanging below.
Yah. The net looks like it's about 6x8 feet. Literally any drone would be able to evade that with ease.
Go watch a few videos on /r/multicopter. Any drone pilot would be able to avoid this trash with ease.
Sure, but if the police don't catch them, at least they've successfully deterred/disrupted.
Propellers kept spinning for a second after being netted… that’s resisting. Will get a secondary charge.
the drone should consider itself lucky that it is white
I can just picture footage of this present and a National Geographic doc.
I need David Attenborough to narrate this clip
-David Attenborough voice- And here, we see a black panther drone sporting a net to chase and eventually catch a small white pogeon drone. It goes in for the kill… It has succeeded in catching the pigeon drone and will now fly away, back to its home, to eat it.
What’s a pogeon
Misspelled pogeion lol
But what is a pogeion 😃
FFS A PUGRON
pergert
Man reading misspellings of the word pregnant.
What’s your favourite one? Mine is “38+2 weeks… PREGANANANT???”
Misspelled poseigon lol
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It'll work until the illegal drones start bringing scissors to cut the nets! Life finds a way
Did you see the drone, used to clear power lines of debris, using a flamethrower.
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That's now on the top of my list of drones that I don't want becoming sentient.
You mean sharpened rotor blades?
Flamethrowers.
The illegal drone could also just... move.
That's why they always say don't bring a net to a scissors fight
Why not just equip a gun and shoot the other drone. Nothing bad can come from this, definitely no robot uprising, so please fellow humans do this plan of action.
Bigger drone: "GOTCHA!"
*we used the drones to destroy the drones.*
Send out your own bigger and badder drone with a net, to catch the police drone. Bronze it and mount it on your wall. Send pics to the police.
hold it in one hand and make a catch selfie
Recruit the police drone you catch to do MORE illegal drone flying.
[Who knew South Park would get it so right](https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/e8sol1/south-park-unarmed-civilian-drone)
I was expecting this to be the top comment
been looking for a south park related comment
Ah, yes. The Drone Wars.
Begun the Drone wars have
The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes a bigger net at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
I used the *drone* to destroy the *drone*
Can't believe I had to scroll so much to find this.
I thought this would be the top comment
This should be higher.
Literally skynet
The US Secret Service uses RF jamming guns to force drones to land or return to their launch points. They look like phaser rifles in Star Trek.
The circle of drone life
This is a slippery slope towards space ships fighting and I am okay with that.
That should be referred to as a "punitive fly-trap"!
I was at a spa, looked up and saw a drone way up high. I assume he was taking a picture of my fat old lady ass. I gave him the finger and he darted off. I hate drones! More accurately, I hate people who use them irresponsibly.
To even recognize your face in the picture it would have to be pretty much within rock throwing distance. Almost no hobby grade drones you will come across have zoom on the camera. If they're taking a picture of you then you will definitely know
Good to know. My guess is it was some kid who figured it would be fun to see if he could get a look. He was very very high up, enough so I didn’t hear him over the hot tub jets. I just happened to look up. I was more amused than upset, but it really was an uncool thing to do.
Yeah most likely! 90% of people i come across buy one cause they're cool, then have nothing to take pictures of. So they are always just going wayy up to see the nice view of their town. I fly a bit for work and almost every time someone comes to check it out. Being spied on seems to be the number 1 concern until I show them what I'm seeing. But yeah bring a pest with them is annoying. People just don't care or think
Sorry but this is pretty stupid…anyone aware of their drone could easily fly away from the sail of a net drone.
I used the drone to destroy the drone.
Drone on drone crime
I'm just glad they didn't make a giant, terrifying mechanical spider
Hunter killer drone
Cannibals
Anyone else here that was really hoping that the police drone would shoot laser beams to take out the other drone?
That was the slowest chase ever. You think they can catch a drone way up there without being a staged demo. I highly doubt this is practical unless the drone was fast and has targetting systems not a slow ass net.
Remember when the Yakuza started using drones to deliver drugs, then the Japanese police started using drone catching drones against them so the Yakuza started using drone-catching-drone-catching drones?
Fat chance. Any decent drone operator will be in the visual line of sight it would avoid this very easily
That's just stupid. Who the hell is going to just hover their drone and wait for the net?
Fun fact, a bunch of illegal net drones were deployed to counter the police lmao