More big brother surveillance

[DAVEVO9]

CCTV in the sky!

[eharding]

DAVEVO9 said:

CCTV in the sky!

"BAE Developing National Strategy"

That will have the UAVs flying around with small bags of cement powder instead of sensors for the first five years of deployment (which will be 15 years late starting anyway).

[Saddle bum]

eharding said:

DAVEVO9 said:

CCTV in the sky!

"BAE Developing National Strategy"

That will have the UAVs flying around with small bags of cement powder instead of sensors for the first five years of deployment (which will be 15 years late starting anyway).

Ah, Blue Circle radar lives on.............

[tegwin]

Will be a complete nightmare...

Airspace is very very busy over the UK most of the time... granted its controled over cities etc, keeping a drone sepperated from other traffic and safe should it fail is going to be a nightmare and will be the stumbling block for this thing...

Even the Predator drones in Afghanistan get into airpoxes with manned aircraft because they are not where they should be....(the drones, not the manned aircraft).....


Can just see the news... Light aircraft collides with AWOL drone...

[Tangent Police]

How low do these things go?

Could be a thing to do with one's full bore rifle.

[mcdjl]

I suspect these ones will be the size of toy planes/ remote control aircraft you can buy off the shelf not the big predator sized ones. The fire brigades have been playing with them to look for hot spots for a while and I suspect these will be similar.

[Parrot of Doom]

If it means having one of these instead of a hulking great noisy helicopter at 3AM hovering near my street, good.

[Symptomless Coma]

It would take a huge effort to get CAA approval.

[Jasandjules]

Cool, it'll give the chavs something hard to shoot at....

[rs1952]

Are there any new stories about any more?

This one has been done umpteen times on SPL in the 6 years I've been around here

[Oakey]

Funny isn't it?

Sunday: Series 8 of 24 begins, features CTU keeping an eye on New York via drones in the sky

Friday: Five days later, announcement that police to use drones to keep watch on cities

You have to wonder if someone in the government went into work on Monday morning and said "I have this brilliant idea...."

Edited by Oakey on Saturday 23 January 11:19

[AndrewW-G]

havent the police been trialing something like this over Liverpool?

[eldar]

AndrewW-G said:

havent the police been trialing something like this over Liverpool?

It failed when the drones got stolen....

[Mclovin]

everything is an illegal weapon now days...how are we going to legally shoot these down...

[Oakey]

Mclovin said:

everything is an illegal weapon now days...how are we going to legally shoot these down...

Large McDonalds cup, some lighter fluid, a tennis ball and a lighter

[Mondeohdear]

Mclovin said:

everything is an illegal weapon now days...how are we going to legally shoot these down...

Red Baron style dogfights anyone?

[turbobloke]

The USA had problems recently when Taliban went to RadioShack Kabul Online and bought cheap kit that allowed them to intercept the (unencrypted) images and messages from drones, so over here it'll only be a matter of time before some kissed off IT geek has one ploughing into Plod HQ - or elsewhere.

[Mr_B]

Do it with style

http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm

[anonymous-user]

take it out in style with one of these

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=87360124...