LI cops can shoot down drones as new high-tech command center unveiled: ‘We don’t want to wait’

New York Post ^ | Dec. 19, 2024, 4:07 p.m. ET | Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nassau County cops have gotten the green light to shoot troublesome drones out of the sky — with officials saying they don’t want to wait for something “disastrous” to happen.

The order went out Thursday as county officials unveiled a new state-of-the-art drone command center that can track the mysterious flying crafts from miles away, but they need the feds to sign off on high-tech tools to intercept and take down the drones.

Instead, they’re taking matters into their own hands.

“We don’t want to wait until we have some kind of disastrous event to then say, ‘Well, we could have done this and we could have done that,'” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told reporters.

“The Nassau County Police Department has the authority and certainly has my approval that if there is a mass gathering anywhere and there is a drone that is a threat to the public at large, they have the authority and the jurisdiction and the right to shoot down that drone.”

Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said his team is trained up and ready to roll.

“As far as my snipers go, I have 30 of the best, world-renowned snipers in the country that can hit a quarter a mile away,” he said. “That’s how good they are.”

The announcement comes as the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone operations over parts of New Jersey and decreed that “deadly force” can be used to bring them down.

The agency said that at least until Jan. 17 unmanned aircraft are barred from flying within a nautical mile of specified airspace outlined in an FAA Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM.

Drone sightings in recent months, primarily over New Jersey and portions of New York, have raised the alarm among locals and security concerns for authorities, who fear foreign agents are behind...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Shooting down car-sized drones at an altitude of thousands of feet would be quite a feat without military grade equipment.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I heard they had sensors that could sniff nuclear waste. It seems the energy department(government) lost it as it was being trucked to a disposal site. Couldn’t they ask the drivers?
So they compounded it by sending out the drones at night to avoid scaring people in the daytime. So it’s the Biden Administration compounding one mistake after another. I’m sure Trump knows this.

This idea is not so far-fetched. Iran has problems in Syris, Russia is busy in Ukraine and the Chicoms would know better. It would be an act of war.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There are much more efficient ways to search for radiation sources, and the equipment is not weightless. Plus, you wouldn’t need flocks of drones to conduct a search. This is meant to put fear in the peasants so we beg government to take away our freedom to protect us.

[shanover]

Between Space Force,Airforce,NASA and countless alphabet “intelligence” agencies the source of drones is known. Fedgov better develop a drone plan. Two drones smashed into a skyscraper in Russia today. The drone footage in Ukraine is surreal.

[DesertRhino]

Drama.... endless drama. Now local cop idiots want to control the airspace and shoot at things in the air.

[JimRed]

Why not use a larger version of the cast-net fishermen use to catch bait? Drop it from a chopper over the drone and tow the thing back to base.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

His snipers “can hit a quarter a mile away.”

I’d like to see that.

[DesertRhino]

It’s a government/media mass hysteria, pushed out to idiots, designed to usher in even tighter “security” policies and laws.

[kvanbrunt2]

I hope the farmers with their crop dusting drones, and the power line company’s drones that surveille the wires don’t mind. Drones are people too. They are legal and lawful to operate in the U.S.A. Also, this government induced mania is ripe for the next phase. Drone controls. Feds don’t like stuff not being controlled. Was Long Island a place where the cops shot at cars when they first started driving around. Messing with those horse carriages is a nuisance.

[kvanbrunt2]

The announcement comes as the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone operations over parts of New Jersey and decreed that “deadly force” can be used to bring them down.>>> Yep on the path to “drone control.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Firing bullets at overhead drones seems to ignore the fact that bullets must land somewhere.

I still remember this one: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076431/Rachel-Yoder-shot-gun-1-5-miles-away-Amish-girl-15-killed-freak-accident.html

[kvanbrunt2]

Not only that they are legal to operate. But luddites by nature don’t understand technology. Did they shoot at cars too in 1920?

[kvanbrunt2]

Drama.... endless drama. Now local cop idiots want to control the airspace and shoot at things in the air.>>> Same guys that shot are cars in the 1920’s.

[kvanbrunt2]

His snipers “can hit a quarter a mile away.”

I’d like to see that.>>> And i’m sure they use those disintegrating bullets in case they miss near that school having a student concert at night.

[kvanbrunt2]

It’s a government/media mass hysteria, pushed out to idiots, designed to usher in even tighter “security” policies and laws.>>> Thanks. I agree. i thot every one here was drinking the kool-aid. New jersey was talking “drone control”. Legal and lawful to operate.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

These aren’t the under 250 gram toy drones you can buy on Amazon.

Drones over 250 grams must be registered with the FAA and be equipped with transponders that transmit just about every piece of information about their ownership and current flight data (location, speed, takeoff point, etc.) there is.

If the drones are operating legally, the government knows everything about them.

If they are operating illegally, then standard policy is to intercept them.

[SpaceBar]

It’s not uncommon in the southwest for someone to get hit by a stray bullet fired in the air during the fourth of July. It happens enough that they warn us with TV spots of the danger every year.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here's an interesting article on the terminal velocity of a falling bullet. It sounds like it has to be a freak accident for a falling bullet to kill somebody. The terminal velocity of a bullet is generally too low to kill, but it depends on the weight of the bullet, its orientation when it hits, and where it hits on the body. Most falling bullets don't have enough velocity to penetrate skin. The terminal velocity of a falling bullet is way below its muzzle velocity when it was fired.

Watch Out for Falling Bullets
Is it dangerous to fire a gun into the air?

Slate
By Brian Palmer
March 30, 2011

[frank ballenger]

I thought one (true or not) report said pilots tracking the objects lost them due to some kind of interference or blanking out of the “electronic support measures” signals. Simple radar wasn’t enough, others said, when the objects sometimes moved away in unusual patterns and were lost.

Plus that helicopter staying overhead of one which then suddenly shut off its lights and then got away.