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May 4th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Land of the free.
May 4th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
It won’t be long before large unruly crowds figure out that a mass release of balloons with long strings can bring these things down pretty easily. Or, a $39 battery power RC plane flown into the drone will send them both crashing back down to earth.
May 4th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Memphis got some, too.
May 4th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Counter UAV is up! Their blind!
May 4th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Tech Specs
Twenty minute flight time, with no payload. So basically, they’re useless. Looks to be on an unencrypted 2.4ghz band with pretty low power. That means you can defeat it by turning on your microwave.
May 4th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Also, $30,000 each.
May 4th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Think big! Why disable or destroy such a useful device!
Can’t be all that hard to hack the radio controls – or at least pirate the video feed.
How embarrassed would the police be to lose a drone that then got flown all over the city?
Or if the video feed can be pirated, a YouTube documentary of how many apartment windows the police were looking into and how many undressed women were seen (without a warrant) might be appropriate.
Instead of destructive creativity, how about really creative creativity!
May 4th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
mikee, I’m with you there. Nashville PD’s helos (all freaking SIX of them) have this air-to-ground live video feed from their thermal cameras. Unencrypted, but it’s on a 5.8ghz video link. I can’t seem to get the equipment to receive the transmission for less than $30k, used.
These, though, are so low-powered that you’d basically have to follow around Sgt Mask and wait for him to deploy before you could even attempt to intercept video.
May 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
“Plan to use for guarding critical infrastructure in Nashville, police say”
Critical infrasctructures. Like the Krispy Kreme on Elliston..
May 4th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
@Andy: I’m sure a law will soon pass making an attack on an LEO drone equivalent to that of assaulting an actual human police officer.
May 4th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Why? Has someone threatened to bomb the Grand Ole Opry?
May 4th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I suppose this will help with “suspected terrorists” of the domestic variety…the ones for which the 2012 NDAA legalizes arrest and indefinite detention? Is this why census workers were getting GPS coordinates on everyone?
And they were paid by “free federal money”? Oh OK, is that the money that the Federl Reserve (which is neither) prints and loans to us?
May 4th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Bring it down with a jammer. Part it out and sell the parts. Burn. Bring it down with a jammer. Add your own encryption to the controller, maybe move it to a band they don’t know how to deal with. Fly it around and have fun. Real burn. Do the above, and take some explicit video of people doing private things. Post to youtube as official police video. Real hot burn.
Hint: if they’re transmitting something on a band you can’t readily receive, there are people that can make the equipment, and some of us, er, them will do it for fun.
May 4th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Saw the still from the video and knew that the doughnuts were safe…….
May 4th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Extreme Skeet
May 4th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
It’s not much more than a quadcopter with three double rotors, two $10,000 toilet seats and a ruggedized Android phone for a controller. Even with both toilet seats they still paid too much!
May 4th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Hack the video during a news interview showing its video capacities and replace with girl on girl on dog porn….
May 5th, 2012 at 12:53 am
If the Iranians can gain control of a Predator and land it these will be easy.
May 5th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Pull!