New York Police to Use Drones to Monitor Backyard Labor Day Parties
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Could a laser pen or infrared light damage its camera and make safe landing impossible?
People here are really overestimating how easy it would be to target these things.
Someone brought a cheap drone to a cabin we rented this summer.
Even knowing the drone was airborne and it being very rural, it was still very hard to keep visual with the naked eye.
It was actually easier to track it by the whirring humming sound the rotors produced. But I suspect the city din would similarly blur this as well.
Yeah, in the Ukraine conflict, on both sides, a drone over you can mean death. Either directly from a grenade drop or indirectly from artillery spotting. So the motivation to spot them is very high, and people still miss them. And that's mostly out in the country side.
It's just not that easy to spot something flying around 1000ft above you.
Damn, that's too bad. Beam origination isn't a big obstacle, but I hadn't thought about the return home protocol. The motors or propellers would probably need to be damaged then.
Can you jam the signal going to and directing the drone? It's just radio, right?
Probably just easier to throw something at it.
The amount of laser power you'd need to permanently disable a camera at drone height, say 200-400ft, is significant. And you'd probably want it connected to a pan and tilt system to keep the beam steady, plus optical tracking to keep it focused on the target. It's possible but you'd basically be making a DIY SHORAD system.