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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I’m buying a shotgun this weekend.
OhForTheLoveOf – you beat me to it!
This is a German company.
Does anyone know where to get an EMP device?
#4 – http://tinyurl.com/24augx
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.
I want one.
Does it come with a machine gun attachment?
Or, at least, a laser target designator?
I’ll be waiting for one to fall out of the sky, and knock some kid senseless.
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!”
This makes me want to design a hunter/killer mini drone to kill the other drones.
Finally a true use for a potato cannon. Want fries with that copper?
Mist net. Maybe even a gill net for herring would work. Strings soaked with bird lime. Small, computer operated cannon, firing a bolo.
What do you want?
Information!
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?
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.
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.
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/
This is straight out of 1984, literally. Apparently some read that novel not as a warning, but rather as a manual for good governance. . . .
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.
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.
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…
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?
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.
#23, Charbax, here ya’ go, get yourself a fine R/C airplane or ‘copter and install this–
http://www.wonderhobby.com/smmiwicospyc.html
#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.
I’d instll about a 1lb of batteries…
#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
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.
[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.
The Drone shooting could become the next biggest sport in England!