"Can U.S. Citizen Shot Domestic Spy Drones?"
I've just read this post here on DailyTech.
First of all calling it as "Domestic Spy Drones" sounds tendentiously like a bad approach. [Edited] A friend of mine(Otávio Moraes) said that the word "domestic" is referring to native drones. Though it could also be translated as "homemade" which is why I said it sounds to be tendentious and/or ambiguous. Probably, that's due to the fact of the english language not being my native one.[/Edited]
Anyway, thinking about ballistics I'm wondering how dangerous would be shooting against "the sky" upon urban areas. Much probably a slug could eventually cause a biggest damage by "hard landing" on someone's head. Don't you think?
I could be wrong but it would be a classic situation when a problem is treated by another even bigger. You kill the cockroaches with poison and so you have a plague of scorpions. Not bad...
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Thanks, Ellison! I was just going to talk that.
Before things get out of hand, I'd like to remind everyone that it is against site policy to discuss arming of drones.
That is it arms race!
I was just looking for a reason to arm my UAV!
Mmm, 2 of my favorite pass-times. Depending on the type of UAV it would be either easy or not at all possible to shoot down a drone. Normal hovering types like quadcopters, helicopters etc make easy targets even 100m up in the air. Fixed-wing however constantly moves at high speed and you will probably spend a lot of cartridges to get even one bullet through a wing, nevermind hitting the avionics. This reminds me of a situation where a person stood on a balcony on new years eve and took a shot into the air with his .303 rifle. The bullet from that weapon went through a tile roof and hit a child lying in her bed 2.5 km away. It took the police about 3 months with a lot of maths to establish the trajectory and the exact position of the shooter. This happened during the 60's in South Africa
If a person wants to shoot down my drone he/she has the freedom to start up his own website calledwww.DIYantiaircraft.com where him and other anti-drone and pro-privacy guys can gather to produce open source solutions to the drone menace not limited to homemade railguns, signal jammers, GPS jammers, and other signal jammers to drive us from the air. I personally look forward to the upcoming arms race!
Hey Guys when it comes over the back fence Sling shot and a stone ? Garden Hose?Pet Rock? Potato Cannon? Water cannon ? If it gets to close Base ball Bat.These are the "Legal" weapons in Canada you "might?"get away with using If the drone happened to "Stray" into the line of fire by accident within 25 to 50 feet . for a longer range Good old fashioned signal mirror. If you cause it to crash and it lands in your back yard the law will come looking they will have a GPS fix of it's last location . you better have a good story. " I was watching it and it just fell out of the sky?" or something like that . Have a Good Day!
I am so glad I don't live in the US. I can't even believe people who consider using a firearm in the city for anything other than to protect against loss of life or serious injury.
People don't own airspace, they own land, and for the same reason you can't stop a manned aircraft from flying over your house, you can't stop an unmanned aircraft. If you have a complaint about the noise of EITHER type of aircraft go make a complaint about that. But shooting down an unmanned aircraft would more than likely, under the law be considered shooting down ANY aircraft.
Shotguns are oprobably not too dangerous. But rifle or pistol bullets definitely can. I've heard of a story (possibly urban legend, but this sort of thing IS possible) where a KKK creep was shot at his own initiation when somebody else near him fired a gun straight up.
Militaries use moderately sized machine guns for indirect fire.
@Robert, I do remember that case, about the SHARK guys. There is even this video:
http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=8ad508372b74
Duh, I forgot, it's already happened! Remember that case with the gun club doing a live pigeon shoot, and an animal rights activist using a drone to film it. They actually did shoot the drone down, so there you go! I wonder whatever happened with that case?
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