Feels like this all over again.
Posted on 12/06/2024 5:52:32 AM PST by iontheball
The Hunterdon County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday that recent drone sightings within the county and other parts of New Jersey are under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The unusual drone activity has sparked enough concern for Hunterdon County Commissioner John Lanza to seek a public briefing.Lanza, the liaison to the Sheriff’s Office and Department of Public Safety, emphasized that some reports describe drones hovering over residential areas for extended periods. Meanwhile, other accounts mention drones flying in clusters, sometimes as large as eight.
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Whew. We can all breathe a sigh of relief now that the FBI is on the job.
FBI can’t be trusted to investigate when they’re one of the prime suspects.
Volkswagen sized drone have been overflying US military bases for months, yet the FBI gumshoes haven’t cracked that case yet nor has the worlds most powerful military been able track them or shoot them down. Of course Joe Biden let a bus sized Chinese spy balloon traverse the entire country unmolested. I expect that will soon change on January 20.
Hire a couple of teenagers to shoot the damn things down. You idiots are going to get stiff necks standing there looking up at them like a bunch of idiots wondering what the hell they are and what they are doing.
“The FBI is Investigating” = nothing gets done.
So where are all of the Drone Jamming technologies I’ve been reading about?
Just how difficult is it to simply shoot them down?
Oh don’t you know, radio transmitters are general purpose chipsets and are software defined to an extent no single jammer antenna can be tuned effectively. Guarding against 100khz-26ghz is quite the antenna package, its 6 chips that are in everything wireless.
The outside operator only has to choose an control link of old and overlap some licensed frequency for the video link and game is on. Cannot go around jamming every non wired video camera in south florida or NJ.
As the counter force one has to package, design, haul around a system to fry $40 worth electronics from 800m, that takes a ton of energy and very old school countermeasures were researched and well know to prevent EMP damage to the simplese of devices. The accelerometers and gyroscopes in the game controller chips are good for 10 seconds of dead reconning, a 7 inch quad copter covers 500m in 10 seconds.
The technology to stop a flying drone is a 12 gauge shotgun with birdshot and a wide blast pattern.
The simplest is not to control attack drones, send a few dozen to many point on the map and shut down the political stage for months. GPS until it jammed, optical AI target finding is opensource. If you have a technical bent, the threat to any target outdoors is a matter of putting together electronic jellybeans on open source software projects. See Betaflight and iNav.
Probably them behind the drones. The FBI is no longer trusted.
Sooo… these nitwits are standing there doing NOTHING? Fly a few over their houses and watch the phones light up at DoD.
As a somewhat tech challenged senior, that was the only part of your post that I completely understood. LOL
I don’t understand why they just don’t shoot them down, it’s crazy. If you get one, then you know who the hell owns it.
Shoot them down. Or use a chopper towing a large net to collect them. Or follow them back to their point of origin and arrest the operators.
Limited effective range depending on choke.
Feels like this all over again.
I developed my trap shooting skills for duck hunting but the crossover makes me feel at least a bit prepared.
I feel special. I'm a senior as well, however, I am extremely skilled in technology, especially computer development, dressout of web servers, app servers, SQL servers, and so on.
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