$640 for the CT-2065QD Quadcopter jammer.
Posted on 10/15/2015 10:35:33 AM PDT by simpson96
While some homeowners are turning to shotguns to deal with unwanted drones, federal agencies and law enforcement lack the necessary technology to deal with this increasing menace. However, thanks to Battelle Innovations and its new DroneDefender, law enforcement now has an anti-drone system designed to disable a drone without blasting it out the sky.
The new DroneDefender uses radio pulses to disable a hostile drone within a 400-meter radius. These pulses interrupt the communications system of the drone, making it think it is out of range. The drone’s safety protocols then kick in, forcing it to either hover, return to its point of origin, or descend slowly as it prepares to land. Because the weapon jams communication with the nearby operator, the DroneDefender also can prevent detonation and other remote functions.
The radio jamming system is mounted to a gun chassis that makes the anti-drone weapon lightweight (10 lbs or less) and easy-to-use. It is designed to fire within 0.1 seconds of startup and can operate for five hours straight. Not only is this system efficient, this rifle-like design is also familiar to the DroneDefender’s targeted audience — government agencies and law enforcement.
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Why are drones allowed to fly most anywhere but RC planes aren’t?
Any birdshot from a 12ga would suffice.
The higher-end $1000plus drones have no fly zones programmed into the onboard GPS.
Would depend upon altitude ... the drone would have to be really low for bird shot to bring it down. A Mosin could ‘touch it’ up to a few hundred feet.
Yeah, it took the R/C world by storm. Long gone are the days of frequency flags and 'shoot-downs' due to someone turning on a radio on the same frequency.
All the major radio manufacturers (Futaba, Airtronics, JR, Spektrum, etc.) have been selling hobby-grade 2.4Ghz radio systems for over 10 years. In fact, these days you'd be hard-pressed to find an FM or AM system available for sale at the retail level.
Because those who fly R/C airplanes respect the rules set up by the AMA (working with the FAA) whereas the drone pilots are yahoos who think that these rules are meant for the rubes.
For example, envisio is one of the yahoos of which I spoke who has no respect for the rules.
Now I’m grown I can buy all the cool toys I never had. And everyone can kiss my grits about it.
Envisio thinks that because he can afford the toy, he doesn't have to fly it responsibly. He thinks he can fly anywhere he wants, any time he wants, even in the descent path of airliners and doesn't care if he causes a crash that may injure or kill a couple of hundred innocent people. He would be only too happy to fly over a brush fire in the path of aerial firefighters just to get some kewl aerial footage and wouldn't care if he caused the aerial firefighters to cease operations causing dozens of peoples' cars to burn to the ground.
In his words, 'everyone can kiss his grits'.
You particularly can kiss my grits. “grits” being the PG word.
Who said I want to fly in the path of a plane, killing people? Who said that?
Who said I want to fly over a fire disrupting firefighters? Who said that?
Where do you get this crap? Talk about a yahoo, geez, calm down son.
My drone is a $89.99 toy. It will only go up to a hundred feet. I chase my dogs with it and they chase it back. It will not even fly out of my property.
Exactly where did you get all that crap?
“Everyone can kiss my grits” referred to my friends giving me a hard time about being a grown man playing with TOYS.
I’d like to know how you came up with all your assumptions. Really I’d like to know.
Every one of the yahoos flying in the path of airliners or water bombers, or having their drones shot out of the sky after repeatedly flying over their neighbors houses, or like the yahoo flying his drone over my head while pier fishing recently, all have the same, 'kiss my grits' attitude.
Now, had you first qualified your 'kiss my grits' comment to mean your friends giving you a hard time about playing with 'toys' I would not have responded to your post.
I get 'all this crap' because I've been an R/C flyer for the past 30 years and have seen a marked change in attitudes as they relate to safety with the advent of FPV and, especially with multi-rotor helicopters, AKA, drones.
Alright. The biggest quad-copter I have is a toy. It does not have the range to go out of my yard. I have used it mostly to play with my dogs. I have used it at family dinners which are sometimes outside BBQs and made a couple passes circling overhead and I circle over filming the badminton games that usually pop up at our family get-togethers. It is a toy but everyone loves the overhead videos of our functions and our kids playing.
I agree with you about reckless behavior. I read about a man who shot a drone out of the sky for filming his daughter sunbathing in the backyard. I would have done the same thing had it been my daughter.
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$640 for the CT-2065QD Quadcopter jammer.
That's cool. It sounds like you're flying it responsibly and I appreciate it. I'm sorry for getting your hackles up.
I agree with you about reckless behavior. I read about a man who shot a drone out of the sky for filming his daughter sunbathing in the backyard. I would have done the same thing had it been my daughter.
Same, here. Right after that I was fishing on a crowded pier and some yahoo was flying his drone over the pier, he then flew over a crowd on the beach. I did consider casting a line to hook it, like the other pier fisherman did a couple of weeks ago, but I used my better judgement and just flipped him the bird.
What a lot of people forget, or take for granted is that the larger drones, like those shot out of the sky, have four or more 1hp electric motors spinning 10"-12" propellers. Having been accidentally cut by motors/propellers this size I have a lot of respect for their power. Enrique Iglesias got cut by one of the props when he held out his hand to have the drone operator try to land on his hand. Let's just say Mr. Iglesias gained a new level of respect for a spinning propeller.
As an aside, I recently read an article about SkyPan International being fined $1.9 million for careless or reckless operation for taking pictures/video of their clients' high rises in NYC. (See: Still Unconvinced, Home Buyer? Check Out the View From the Drone)
Here's the money quote from the article:
Mark Segal, president of SkyPan International, which took the photos for Alchemy, said his company did not seek F.A.A. approval at the time because the agency did not have a system for managing commercial drones below 400 feet. He added that most developers believed that once they purchased air rights over future development sites, “view images created by robots, drones or blimps should be allowed without F.A.A. involvement as long as these airships stay directly over the property footprint and follow certain safety procedures.”
So, when drone operators want to avoid fines, they claim private property rights exist up to 400'. But, when they violate other peoples' private property rights and have their drones shot out of the sky, they claim they have air rights. (See: Air Rights)
So why exactly do cops want to banish drones? Don’t want to be recorded?
I fly mine on my property never higher than treetops. Mine claims 200ft range but I have never got past maybe 100ft before it auto-lands. I have many acres and I could let an expensive one really cut loose if I was into the hobby enough to spend that kind of money.
Does a drone have to have permits/permission to fly over a certain altitude akin to a airplane? Or is it a property rights issue? Is the airspace above us free to fly at will?
According to the FAA rules, model airplanes are not permitted to fly above 400'. Airplanes (man-carrying aircraft) are not permitted to fly closer than 500' to any person or structure. Technically, in an area where people or structures are located, such as a city or town, this means that airplanes must stay higher than 500'.
If an operator wants to fly his drone higher than 400' into the national air space (NAS) and is inside an positive-controlled air space area under Air Traffic Control, he must have a transponder and two-way radio so that he can coordinate his flight with ATC. If he is operating his drone with first-person video (FPV) he must also have a line-of-sight observer. This can be via a person on the ground or a chase plane. The observer must be within a mile laterally or 3000 feet vertically.
There's a whole list of rules governing recreational and commercial operation. (See: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Frequently Asked Questions)
So, basically, if the operator is flying his drone under 400' over someone else's private property, he's trespassing.
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