Video – British Police Spy Drone

By Thursday September 20, 2007

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



40 Comments
  1. ECA says:
    9/20/2007 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…

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  2. Billabong says:
    9/20/2007 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?

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  3. Charbax says:
    9/20/2007 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.

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  4. BubbaRay says:
    9/20/2007 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

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  5. Sinn Fein says:
    9/20/2007 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.

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  6. Mike Voice says:
    9/20/2007 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

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  7. ECA says:
    9/20/2007 at 8:39 pm

    I’d instll about a 1lb of batteries…

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  8. TIHZ_HO says:
    9/20/2007 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

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  9. Bryan Carney says:
    9/20/2007 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.

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  10. BubbaRay says:
    9/20/2007 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.

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  11. Nicky says:
    9/21/2007 at 3:50 am

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

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  12. Glenn E says:
    9/21/2007 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?

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  13. Glenn E says:
    9/21/2007 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).

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  14. The Cops says:
    9/21/2007 at 5:25 am

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

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  15. Smartalix says:
    9/21/2007 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.

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  16. stevievep says:
    9/21/2007 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.

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  17. OhForTheLoveOf says:
    9/21/2007 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.

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  18. Cinaedh says:
    9/21/2007 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.

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  19. KVolk says:
    9/21/2007 at 7:38 am

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

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  20. GetSmart says:
    9/21/2007 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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