Drone-catchers needed

bcp · Jul 18, 2015

The latest, from:

Motorists flee as wildfire races across California freeway

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire swept across a Southern California freeway in a mountain pass, destroying 20 vehicles and sending motorists running to safety before burning at least four structures. Two people suffered minor injuries, authorities said Friday.
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In the midst of the chaos, fire officials said aircraft sent to douse the flames were briefly delayed after five drones were spotted above the blaze.

It was the fourth time in a span of a month that a drone disrupted efforts to suppress a wildfire in Southern California,

Egon · Jul 18, 2015

randy41 said:
jam the radio signal.

Right on! Even take control of it!

jymbee · Jul 18, 2015

I believe that turned out to be a fake video.

TCJatko said:
Here's another solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpWBE5GdiM

TCJatko · Jul 18, 2015

jymbee said:
I believe that turned out to be a fake video.

Too bad. Seems to be a good solution.

davrow · Jul 20, 2015

randy41 said:
jam the radio signal.

Except you would be jamming the firefighters and aircraft communications, too.

aczlan · Jul 20, 2015

Just do a partial water dump on the drone...

Aaron Z

bcp · Jul 20, 2015

Let wildfires be a test site for experimental military lasers.

Bruce

vanguard · Jul 20, 2015

Fawken said:
I watched a video on Youtube a while back of a Russian arms dealer near Houston. He had a drone that fired a heavy machine gun. Would you object to that? It isn't a handgun. I realize some countries don't like handguns. BTW, I have several.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

lol, that guy is actually one of my best friends. He's not a russian arms dealer. That was a promotional video for Call of Duty Black Ops II. I hope I don't disappoint you but it was all CGI. They didn't even fire any guns during the making of that video.

dusty3030 · Jul 20, 2015

randy41 said:
jam the radio signal.

Yep. Ain't no telling what technology can do today but in my day a EA-6B Prowler could fry anything electronic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_EA-6B_Prowler

turnkey4099 · Jul 21, 2015

vanguard said:
lol, that guy is actually one of my best friends. He's not a russian arms dealer. That was a promotional video for Call of Duty Black Ops II. I hope I don't disappoint you but it was all CGI. They didn't even fire any guns during the making of that video.

It was taken as serious on one forum and they got all upset when I pointed out obvious problems both twith the clip and physical problems (recoil).

Harry K