Video – British Police Spy Drone

Published on September 20th, 2007

Posted by Gasparrini in Video

I really thought it was bigger. I found a little creepy the part where the drone hovered just outside a window.

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# 1 OhForTheLoveOf said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am

I’m buying a shotgun this weekend.

# 2 Peter Rodwell said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:09 am

OhForTheLoveOf – you beat me to it!

# 3 Smartalix said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:14 am

This is a German company.

# 4 Froggmann said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:21 am

Does anyone know where to get an EMP device?

# 5 OhForTheLoveOf said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:24 am

#4 – http://tinyurl.com/24augx

# 6 blackdan said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:28 am

you don’t need a shotgun for this, I’m sure a garden hose or even a plastic bag can kill this thing… basically anything that can get stuck in the propellors will getthe job done.

# 7 chuck said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:28 am

I want one.
Does it come with a machine gun attachment?
Or, at least, a laser target designator?

# 8 Sean said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:29 am

I’ll be waiting for one to fall out of the sky, and knock some kid senseless.

# 9 Daniel said, on September 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

I particularly like the cheesy music that sounds like it belongs in a resort infomercial.

“Welcome to the Police State, where spying is as everyday as pissing!”

# 10 Improbus said, on September 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

This makes me want to design a hunter/killer mini drone to kill the other drones.

# 11 Greymoon said, on September 20th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

Finally a true use for a potato cannon. Want fries with that copper?

# 12 Phillep said, on September 20th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

Mist net. Maybe even a gill net for herring would work. Strings soaked with bird lime. Small, computer operated cannon, firing a bolo.

# 13 MikeN said, on September 20th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

What do you want?

Information!

# 14 ECA said, on September 20th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

Shell for the shot gun, that police use, has 2 slugs and an 18″ wire…RIP!!

Max fly height?
Range?
duration of flight?
Adaptive lens?

# 15 Sinn Fein said, on September 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

To knock this thing down, you first have to know its around…and by that time, you’re signed, sealed and delivered….and these things will only get quieter, faster and equipped with higher tech capabilities. Perhaps even smaller, much smaller.

It’ll be cool for Mars exploration but look out bad guys here.

# 16 DaveW said, on September 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

Oh, shotgun would do nicely, at close range. So would a sling shot for that matter.

But I’d really like to see a dead on hit with something like a .30-06 or a .45-70.

Now, tell me what to do about the real, full sized police helicopters that infest my neighborhood on a regular basis, usually just as I am trying to fall asleep. And, yes I have tried running out into the street in my shorts and yelling, “AIR RAID”. Didn’t work.

Funny thing is that you never read anything about any crime going on in the area.

# 17 BubbaRay said, on September 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Why not just use a green laser and blind the camera? About $60 -$90 bucks and a battery or two. Fits in your shirt pocket. Range – over 5 miles.

I use these as aiming devices on some of my transportable telescopes when I don’t want to do a precision polar alignment. At night, the beam is quite visible and seems to go to infinity.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/8a39/

# 18 Li said, on September 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

This is straight out of 1984, literally. Apparently some read that novel not as a warning, but rather as a manual for good governance. . . .

# 19 Gary Marks said, on September 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Besides the uses for criminal and political surveillance, these things will become part of the standard toolkit for the paparazzi. Yikes, we’re all gonna have to equip our homes with radar to detect hovering drones.

How I long for those simpler “duck and cover” days.

# 20 mark said, on September 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

1. When OFTLO threatens to start buying weapons to protect against big brother, then we all KNOW we are in big trouble. You sir, are the canary in the coalmine.

# 21 ECA said, on September 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

16,
that police round for the shot gun should work great…RIGHT at the rear rotor……It was designed to remove 3″ limbs in the way for snipers.
And think about what it would do to a person…ARM, OFF…

# 22 Billabong said, on September 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

Pull! Blam finally all those hours shooting clay pigeons will mean something.I wonder if its legal to knock one down if it is flying over your property?

# 23 Charbax said, on September 20th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

I’d love to play with a remote controlled airplane, helicopter or drone like this one to get some areal videos made, that’s simply awesome if it was possible to do some areal video for like $100 or something like that. The remote control system should get the live video feed sent back on a small screen and if possible put a HD camcorder up there.

# 24 BubbaRay said, on September 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pm

#23, Charbax, here ya’ go, get yourself a fine R/C airplane or ‘copter and install this–

http://www.wonderhobby.com/smmiwicospyc.html

# 25 Sinn Fein said, on September 20th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

#16, I can sympathize about annoying racket…I live very near a railroad crossing where coal trains lay on those damnable air-horns-from-Hell long before the crossing and well past it at all hours of the night. …slightly excessive… I say, let morons run through the gates and take their chances in the Darwin Awards race.

# 26 Mike Voice said, on September 20th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

If you don’t want to buy from a German company, you can buy from a Canadian company:

http://tinyurl.com/yrfv7d

“… the X-Pro can supports payload up to 1 pound in weight. It features nearly silent operation by using highly efficient electric motors and belt drives for all four rotors.”

“It high lifting capacity and flight times of up to 18 minutes make the X-Pro the perfect platform for aerial photography using a still camera or carrying any type or sensor or device.”

Links from the DraganFly site:

One of MIT’s labs has worked with a “swarm” of these 4-rotor helicopters:
http://vertol.mit.edu/

A company is using them for aerial photography, etc
http://www.hpndvr.com/aerial.cfm

An Italian company using them for music videos:
http://www.volovisione.com/?cat=4

# 27 ECA said, on September 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

I’d instll about a 1lb of batteries…

# 28 TIHZ_HO said, on September 20th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

#17 “Why not just use a green laser and blind the camera? About $60 -$90 bucks and a battery or two.”

How much $60~ $90 – WOW! I need to get into this business. Let me know how many you want? If you can sell them I can send them.

Cheers

# 29 Bryan Carney said, on September 20th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

The match is set, fellas. Either draconian drug, sex, and morality laws survive or this thing. The larger pool of data with make policing smaller crimes less beneficial than the big game.

When congressmen are cought with coke and members in their mouths and ministers are found making meth, the panopticon will change bahavior.

# 30 BubbaRay said, on September 20th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

[absurdly off topic]
#28, TIHZ_HO, I might take you up on that.

Did you check the link I supplied? That’s one high-powered barely legal laser. I’ve seen the laser’s projected green spot with small scopes (5″ – 16″) reflected off oil derricks 8 mi. distant. (crowd goes “holy sh**”)

I’ve permalinked this msg. so if you reply in the next week or so, I’ll see it.

# 31 Nicky said, on September 21st, 2007 at 3:50 am

The Drone shooting could become the next biggest sport in England!

# 32 Glenn E said, on September 21st, 2007 at 5:05 am

#3 – This is a German company.

You noticed that right off too, eh? The GmbH and the thick accented voice at the beginning was kind of a giveaway. Seems the germans are getting into this high tech spy gear more and more. If it’s not these things, its software to police PCes. Are we looking at the beginning of another Nazi industrial-political movement, in its early phase?

# 33 Glenn E said, on September 21st, 2007 at 5:21 am

There’s a trick to it. Just only commit crimes on very foggy days. And while it might handle light winds in England. I doubt it would work in Chicago.
BTW, the one shown flying in “6.6 M/sec wind, didn’t have a Tv camera. I think this was only a prototype model. It may be stretching things a bit for it to have all features at once (camera, GPS, wind resistant).

# 34 The Cops said, on September 21st, 2007 at 5:25 am

#16 – Because you run outside in your underwear. That’s why. Best yuk we get all night.

# 35 Smartalix said, on September 21st, 2007 at 6:03 am

32,

My comment was more to the post title. It may have Brit security people hot for it, but it is not a British-made device.

This device is closer to Larry Niven’s “Spyeyes” than any other fictional tech, IMNSHO.

# 36 stevievep said, on September 21st, 2007 at 6:12 am

Lot’s of comments, this one, and no one mentioned envisioning Darth Maul on the outskirts with his Sith brand binoculars.

# 37 OhForTheLoveOf said, on September 21st, 2007 at 7:20 am

#20 – When OFTLO threatens to start buying weapons to protect against big brother, then we all KNOW we are in big trouble. You sir, are the canary in the coalmine.

Hahahaha – Thanks Mark… If my moniker hadn’t already achieved brand status is the Dvorak economy, I’d change my name to CanaryInTheCoalmine

#29 – Panopticon”

Great word! Thanks man! What an appropriate word to describe living in modern America.

# 38 Cinaedh said, on September 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am

I was fascinated by all the anti-spy eye potential solutions but I suspect most of them would fail. This is just a prototype.

The real ones are gonna be a whole hell of a lot smaller and that’s going to make them difficult to hear or to see – as well as to counter.

# 39 KVolk said, on September 21st, 2007 at 7:38 am

so you combine this idea with this one: http://tinyurl.com/yayxso
and it gets even more sci fi like…

# 40 GetSmart said, on September 21st, 2007 at 11:04 am

Your kid’s SuperSoaker waterpistol of mass destruction filled with water thinned black latex paint should discourage these flying pests. Or a nice big tank of compressed air and a gravity fed superball machine gun made out of PVC pipe. ( You can order those small superballs like are in the quarter vending machines by the case.) Or a full auto paintball gun, and experiment with replacing the colored goo in the paintballs with something more permanently sticky. The possibilities for fun are near limitless.

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