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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Filo on December 20, 2018, 11:53:16 am
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Anyone else think it’s strange that security services refused to shoot them down?
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I can't understand it at all. If you can see it, you can shoot it down.
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In my younger days I had a WEIHRAUCH HW 80 air rifle with 4x40 night scope, that coupled with the stainless steel pellets would have brought it down no problem, that gun was a beast
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I can't understand it at all. If you can see it, you can shoot it down.
How, precisely.?
Drone could be small, hard to see and moving around erratically a lot.. a sniper may be an idea but where do the stray rounds go.?
A shotgun would be better but wouldn’t have the range.
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You can go to prison for endangering an aircraft..
Find the irresponsible idiots doing this and hammer them with the legal system, to act as a deterent to others..
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He'll go down if they catch him. This will have cost £10s of millions in disruption to schedules, nevermind the safety aspects.
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It’s the endangering the aircraft that is the criminal offence though..
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I can't understand it at all. If you can see it, you can shoot it down.
How, precisely.?
Drone could be small, hard to see and moving around erratically a lot.. a sniper may be an idea but where do the stray rounds go.?
A shotgun would be better but wouldn’t have the range.
I agree a shotgun would be ideal if it were in range, but on your other point, where would a stray round go in a terrorist incident in a built up area, and whats to day this is not a terrorist incident, or another Russian sponsored incident, it was definetly co ordinated and must have used multiple drones, surely there are radio jamming devices that could bring them down
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Absolute idiots. When they catch 'em get 'em banged up for a five stretch.
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I expect armed police would only shoot with a clear target..
I agree jamming would be ideal, unless the frequencies overlap with other things.?
Absolute idiots. When they catch 'em get 'em banged up for a five stretch.
I couldn’t agree more!!
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So why have n’t all airports got two or three of these things
https://www.perfectjammer.com/drone-signal-jammers.html
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Do they have the necessary range and are proven not to interfere with essential airport or aircraft systems.?
This is a big issue for the airports industry..
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Unfortunately all the media attention has provided campaigners an ideal platform going forward
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Unfortunately all the media attention has provided campaigners an ideal platform going forward
Five years porridge should give them a good platform.
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As soon as darkness falls will the drones be out again?
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….. or some d**khead at another airport decides it will be funny to do it there.
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That’s why the perpetrator needs a big sentence if caught and tried..
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Doncaster Prison used to train large birds of prey to catch drones,but no body was that interested so the venture failed
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Things don’t add up to me, it seems there were multiple drones of an industrial grade, not the cheap £50 shit, a COBRA meeting is taking place and the Army have been called in, to me this looks more than just a d**khead with a drone and more like something state sponsored
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Things don’t add up to me, it seems there were multiple drones of an industrial grade, not the cheap £50 shit, a COBRA meeting is taking place and the Army have been called in, to me this looks more than just a d**khead with a drone and more like something state sponsored
I wouldn't be disPutin this me old China.
Any suspects?
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The cynic in me says this is the government testing No Deal Brexit protocols. :lol:
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The cynic in me says this is the government testing No Deal Brexit protocols. :lol:
Well if this is what happens when 1 airport has problems - wait until Chris Grayling has to deal with 40 of them and 120 ports too!!!
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This here drone.
It's been flying for 30 hours now.
f**k prosecuting the perpetrator. Get him a factory to make more of these batteries.
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This here drone.
It's been flying for 30 hours now.
f**k prosecuting the perpetrator. Get him a factory to make more of these batteries.
I was thinking that. How long can they stay up there?
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Haha it not constantly been up in the air!
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And there's more than one of them.
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A drone expert on the radio this morning suggested that it was possible that the drones were flying pre-programmed flight paths via GPS rather than being piloted by a human via radio control.
If so, then any radio wave blocking technology would be ineffective.
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Why didn't they just shoot the bas**rd down?
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Stray bullets.
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Reports of 2 arrested late last night.
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Here we go problem solved courtesy of Ian Fleming! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbbQaIoaSM
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James would sort the f***kers out.
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A man and woman arrested. 47 and 54 !! can you believe ?
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A man and woman arrested. 47 and 54 !! can you believe ?
Eco-warriors?
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A man and woman arrested. 47 and 54 !! can you believe ?
Eco-warriors?
If it was politically motivated surely someone or some organisation would have been claiming responsibility, otherwise what's the point?
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Eco-warriors ?? If they are I blame Sting , tree hugger ,tantric sex, wtf
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She looks quite fit for 54
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She looks quite fit for 54
That's what I thought, was pulling me put till I realised how close to terrorism it was.
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Turning into a reyt balls up, this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615
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Turning into a reyt balls up, this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615
I'm really surprised the Met isn't leading on this. It doesn't really surprise me that Sussex Plods have screwed up.
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I did wonder if I was being a bit harsh on Sussex Police. However if there is any truth in this it makes you think the force is the province of Inspector Clouseau types.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomPugh212/status/1076874388761440260?p=v
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''Gatwick Airport Limited has now offered a £50,000 reward through Crimestoppers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for disrupting flights''
It was the coppers, jumping the gun, can I have my reward please.
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Well the guy who got arrested was at work when the drones were supposedly seen so no wonder they got released, he is definitely punching above his weight
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So now the line is that there may not have been no actual sighting of the drone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714
Good to see the Govt as on the ball as ever.
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So now the line is that there may not have been no actual sighting of the drone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714
Good to see the Govt as on the ball as ever.
The name Chris Grayling should tell you the level of incompetence here
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So 200,000 people massively inconvenienced, untold economic impact...and all because of an imaginary drone!
Getting totally surreal now.
Either the government has completely lost the plot, or we are being softened up by distraction tactics.
Take the heat of the Brexit fandango by giving the media another story to ogle over.
Time to ring some changes.
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So now the line is that there may not have been no actual sighting of the drone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714
Good to see the Govt as on the ball as ever.
The name Chris Grayling should tell you the level of incompetence here
It does - and that sick smile he always wears even when delivering bad news or avoiding serious questions. I mean how limited are they for people with ANY ability to run that Department if they have to use him
Think me - born in the 50s getting to play for Rovers - cos they domt have 17 better players.
At least the smiling slimeball will (maybe) deliver on his promise he has announced 6 rimes already to rid our region of Pacer Trains. Sure it will happen ONE DAY
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I wrote to him once complaining about the state of the A1, I got a reply trying to tell me there was nothing wrong with it and how much money they had invested on improvements in the south
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Drone activity in parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZbvd2ibAM
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This is just the best;
https://news.sky.com/story/some-gatwick-drone-sightings-may-have-been-police-drones-chief-constable-says-11593854
The gift that keeps on giving!
So if I name the Chief Constable of the local plod as the guilty party, do I get the £50k reward Gatwick are offering?
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So now the line is that there may not have been no actual sighting of the drone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714
Good to see the Govt as on the ball as ever.
The name Chris Grayling should tell you the level of incompetence here
It does - and that sick smile he always wears even when delivering bad news or avoiding serious questions. I mean how limited are they for people with ANY ability to run that Department if they have to use him
Think me - born in the 50s getting to play for Rovers - cos they domt have 17 better players.
At least the smiling slimeball will (maybe) deliver on his promise he has announced 6 rimes already to rid our region of Pacer Trains. Sure it will happen ONE DAY
Just seen Pacer Trains were due to be phased out by 2019 so another few hours till then. Ah but that has just been changed to "by the END of 2019" Crafty b******s
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This is just the best;
https://news.sky.com/story/some-gatwick-drone-sightings-may-have-been-police-drones-chief-constable-says-11593854
The gift that keeps on giving!
So if I name the Chief Constable of the local plod as the guilty party, do I get the £50k reward Gatwick are offering?
All gone suspiciously quiet, hasn't it?
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Watch the news tonight.
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Watch the news tonight.
Yep, at it at Heathrow now.
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It did just dawn on me. I hope the Met aren't reading this thread!