I understand the danger of drones in the flight path. My response is to shoot the damn things down, not have to be unable to fight a fire because some idiot is playing with a drone.
Too hard. Imagine trying to hit a bird flying hundreds of feet in the air. Shotguns aren’t effective at that range. Oh, AND you are standing on burning prairie grass... or it is over the trees of a forest, that is on fire. What is the alternative? Try to fly within 100 yards of it with a helicopter and then shoot it? While flying through smoke? They are only getting a glimpse of these things while making a drop. They don’t have a clear shot. The easiest thing to do is to check around the perimeter of the fire and find the operator. And even that can be a challenge.
Your talking about hitting a small moving target, with elevation difference, at potentially hundreds of yards away. While trying to avoid getting burned to death.
Oh, for full disclosure just yesterday we dove the parameter of a freshly extinguished (mostly) wildfire, and just last week we sat up on a mountain top and watched the firebombs make their runs. To find, target, and shoot down a drone in all that would be difficult to the point of miraculous.
Oh, for full disclosure just yesterday we dove the parameter of a freshly extinguished (mostly) wildfire, and just last week we sat up on a mountain top and watched the firebombs make their runs. To find, target, and shoot down a drone in all that would be difficult to the point of miraculous.