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Angry Bird: Hawk knocks drone out of the sky
Fox 5 San Diego ^
| 10/9/14
| Fox 5 Digital Team
Posted on 10/09/2014 5:23:50 PM PDT by BigEdLB
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A hawk swooping in and attacking a drone while it was flying over a park in Massachusetts Wednesday was captured on video.
(HT Drudge)
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: angrybird; drone; hawk
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Ive stuck my fingers in small plastic blades before. No problem. I have accidentally allowed my fingers to come in contact with the idling prop of an RC airplane. It was very difficult to get the bleeding to stop. Those propellers are very efficient at shredding flesh.
To: sand88
The camera is underslung....he couldn’t get to it.
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:12:35 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: j. earl carter
I did that just tonight — heli tail rotor. Stopped the bleeding with 4% lidocaine (helps with the pain, too, obviously).
There are lots of videos like this.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:16:59 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: Age of Reason
"These drones need to be designed to be harmless to wildlife or stay out of the sky." Like guns and pellet rifles and bows and arrows and knives. Make then safe or ban them all!
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:18:50 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:53:05 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: BigEdLB
I’m still waiting for a drone hunter-killer drone.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:54:42 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: BigEdLB
Saw this on the local news. Good job Birdie....Awesome!
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posted on
10/09/2014 11:05:21 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: BigEdLB
Air superiority at its best.
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posted on
10/10/2014 3:41:45 AM PDT
by
puppypusher
( The World is going to the dogs.)
To: BigEdLB
At last. We know the last thing that went through the pigeon’s mind...
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posted on
10/10/2014 4:19:43 AM PDT
by
Makana
To: j. earl carter
You’re assuming they are sizeable. Many of these are not at all.
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posted on
10/10/2014 4:51:06 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
10/10/2014 6:10:39 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
To: sand88
"....the hawk still has his eye on the drone...
--------------------------->
*snicker*
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posted on
10/10/2014 6:14:43 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
To: LambSlave
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posted on
10/10/2014 6:16:22 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
To: Buffalo Head
That gets into some egregious ballistics problems, and while it would work for low elevation light drones, likely helicopter type, higher elevation police or military type fixed wing drones would be a lot harder to take down that way.
A big part of anti-drone technology is flexibility. For higher elevation anti-drones using a balloon platform to get it to altitude so it can fly down at the larger drone, for example. Likewise, the technique it uses can be jamming, physical attack, or even kamikaze attack.
AAA from the ground is a very valid attack, as long as you are covered from sniper attack yourself.
A big advantage of using a raptor attack is that it *could* be a natural attack, and it might even be illegal for the police to shoot at the raptor.
This all is a new entrepreneurial enterprise, so creativity is the name of the game.
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posted on
10/10/2014 7:49:04 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: TChad
Im still waiting for a drone hunter-killer drone.I am still waiting for this thing to hit the market:
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posted on
10/10/2014 8:11:00 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: BigEdLB
That was no hawk, that was an NSA drone...
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:03:36 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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