Drone activity at Gatwick

[Filo]

Anyone else think it’s strange that security services refused to shoot them down?

[The Red Baron]

I can't understand it at all. If you can see it, you can shoot it down.

[Filo]

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

[IDM]

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.

[IDM]

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..

[BillyStubbsTears]

He'll go down if they catch him. This will have cost £10s of millions in disruption to schedules, nevermind the safety aspects.

[IDM]

It’s the endangering the aircraft that is the criminal offence though..

[Filo]

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

[Axholme Lion]

Absolute idiots. When they catch 'em get 'em banged up for a five stretch.

[IDM]

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!!

[Filo]

So why have n’t all airports got two or three of these things

https://www.perfectjammer.com/drone-signal-jammers.html

[IDM]

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..

[roversdude]

Unfortunately all the media attention has provided campaigners an ideal platform going forward

[Axholme Lion]

Unfortunately all the media attention has provided campaigners an ideal platform going forward

Five years porridge should give them a good platform.

[Filo]

As soon as darkness falls will the drones be out again?

[drfchound]

….. or some d**khead at another airport decides it will be funny to do it there.

[IDM]

That’s why the perpetrator needs a big sentence if caught and tried..

[Sprotyrover]

Doncaster Prison used to train large birds of prey to catch drones,but no body was that interested so the venture failed

[Filo]

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

[idler]

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?

[Glyn_Wigley]

The cynic in me says this is the government testing No Deal Brexit protocols.

[wilts rover]

The cynic in me says this is the government testing No Deal Brexit protocols.

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!!!

[BillyStubbsTears]

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.

[Axholme Lion]

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?

[GazLaz]

Haha it not constantly been up in the air!

[Glyn_Wigley]

And there's more than one of them.

[Muttley]

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.

[Bentley Bullet]

Why didn't they just shoot the bas**rd down?

[andy didcott]

Stray bullets.

[RobTheRover]

Reports of 2 arrested late last night.