tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post6220638791932783735..comments2024-03-28T10:37:15.287-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: These Aren't The Drones You're Wishing For...Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77004649602486299922018-10-04T11:20:19.042-07:002018-10-04T11:20:19.042-07:00I've wargamed out ways to do things that would...I've wargamed out ways to do things that would shut down 1/4 to 1/2 of the country and bring on martial law, for under $1M, in a few days, with a couple of dozen people, tops...<br />How about the whole country in a couple weeks, half the guys and nothing more than what we already had on hand...linemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18180668439619161153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-75988137681496571232018-10-03T17:41:13.678-07:002018-10-03T17:41:13.678-07:00I saw you arguing over at Peter Grant's blog (...I saw you arguing over at Peter Grant's blog (Bayou Renaissance man) with a character (Glen Filthie) who dismisses any mention of how drones can be a threat. (Since you have to register at Peters blog to comment and cannot comment as a guest, then I have given up commenting there).<br /><br />Take a look at this Youtube channel - Experimental Airlines :<br /><br />(https://www.youtube.com/user/ExperimentalAirlines/videos<br /><br />In particular, take a look at this video where he carries 3 x 500 ml water bottles (which total 3.3 pounds) and uses parachutes to drop them pretty much on target:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKC6rnTX16E<br /><br />And how to make the kit needed:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi3AFFOQSaw<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXqH3daEgAo<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3fgRhz3E8A<br /><br />Later on he shows another system operating to drop payloads:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-qaHA5C-I<br /><br />As he said about the Skyvan airframe, it cost about $5 for the foam board and tape to make it and the technique is something that a 10 year old could easily manage. Even the goat shaggers could assemble and fly them. OK, the radio gear, servos and a nose mounted Go Pro camera would be extra but a reuseable model aircraft delivering about 3 pounds of payload is pocket money cheap. <br /><br />As for Jamming, then I suppose that the USA has allocated radio frequencies for model aircraft. Other countries are almost certainly using different frequencies so if you use a non USA transmitter/Receiver, then trying to jam it may be difficult. <br /><br />As battery technology and motor design gets more and more flight time out of the system then range will not be a problem either.<br /><br />As for "Line of Sight" then that can be easily evaded by flying the model from inside a car using the nose mounted Go Pro to navigate the model. You need not have visual contact with the aircraft to guide it to a target and some explosive packed inside a pound of screws, ball bearings or similar for a payload of two or three pounds will definitely ruin your day, no problem.<br /><br />But as Glen Filthie says, you don't know what you are talking about and those lying youtube videos are somehow fake. <br /><br />Phil B<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-9603645932706318772018-10-03T04:38:20.699-07:002018-10-03T04:38:20.699-07:00@NITZAKHON
BTDT
http://raconteurreport.blogspot....@NITZAKHON<br /><br />BTDT<br /><br />http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/10/yunfakh-min-allah-wind-of-god.html<br />http://shepherdofthegurneys.blogspot.com/2013/03/wmd-why-everyones-gonna-die-pt-1.html<br /><br />If you follow the bread crumbs to BRM's, I posted things in comments in addition to just those two fictional scenarios.<br /><br />I've wargamed out ways to do things that would shut down 1/4 to 1/2 of the country and bring on martial law, for under $1M, in a few days, with a couple of dozen people, tops.<br />It's not hard to do.<br />Partly because it's in my wheelhouse, and my job description, and partly for the mental exercise.<br /><br />If I can think of it, some guy in a cave in the Hindu Kush already has, so the only reason it hasn't happened is because they literally don't have the resources.<br />Because they'd totally do it if they could.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-56787184250398800372018-10-03T03:56:19.653-07:002018-10-03T03:56:19.653-07:00I'm not going to give away details publicly le...I'm not going to give away details publicly lest the wrong sort be reading, but there are things a drone could carry that would be way, way worse than a pound or so of explosives.<br /><br /><br />NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-74706920908333001562018-10-03T01:22:50.875-07:002018-10-03T01:22:50.875-07:00Local gang criminals are already using hobby-class...Local gang criminals are already using hobby-class drones as delivery vehicles to prisons and jails. So far it's just drugs and cell phones. So far.<br /><br />I've helped a guy fly an R/C in 1972 that could carry 10 lbs of cargo, he used it for taking photos of the local coral heads. (Cameras, especially with waterproof housings, were heavy way back when.) I can't even imagine what new things exist today, after seeing R/C planes the size of a Cessna 172 (seriously, a 4 engine B-17 model? What next?)<br /><br />Yet there are people who still put their heads in the sand over this issue.<br /><br />Some people's kids...<br /><br /><br />Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-4789813687795634622018-10-02T18:45:18.745-07:002018-10-02T18:45:18.745-07:00When the USMC stood up 1st RPV(Provisional) we bou...When the USMC stood up 1st RPV(Provisional) we bought our drones straight across, from Israel. Guidance was line of sight UHF, with B&W broadcast TV signal for visuals.<br /><br />They brought 150 of us into their world, flew one of their toys to our guns positions 6 miles away, gave us a 10-digit MGRS grid on their locations, and picked out all our positions, from the air, in about 2 minutes after T-O-T.<br /><br />At that point, you have an FO who can waste anything he can find in 100 mi², as fast as he can whistle up the assets to destroy the targets.<br /><br />Which was what Israel had done in Bekaa: <br />Drone 1 had spoofers that essentially said to every SAM site "Hey! Look! I'm the entire IAF"! Shoot at me!"<br />Drone's 2 and 3 recorded video and SIGINT on every SAM and AAA position in that valley, as they warmed up, locked on, and tracked Drone 1.<br />Next morning the actual IAF flew in, and wiped out the entire Syrian air defense grid with 0 losses, IIRC.<br /><br />Now put that in the hands of someone on a budget, and trade, say, police cars for SAM sites. Or tracking all the BP vehicles in a 10-mile border sector, in real time. Or taking either set of targets out remotely.<br /><br />And for people thinking they can be jammed, they can also be programmed to fly GPS-guided courses, and/or circle if jammed, with GPS RTB programmed at bingo fuel.<br /><br />That was built into US military systems in 1985.<br /><br />And you aren't going to jam GPS, unless you want to start crashing airliners into each other, and doing the terrorists' job for them.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-978208206517903632018-10-02T18:30:54.777-07:002018-10-02T18:30:54.777-07:00I remember when the Israelis were buying their dro...I remember when the Israelis were buying their drones from a hobbyist who was making them in his garage in Tel Aviv.<br />We had spent millions of dollars on our drone program and the Israeli drones out-performed ours.<br />IIRC, our drones were not capable of performing the mission for which they were designed.<br />Again, IIRC, the Izzys were paying $10,000 a copy for their drones.waepnedmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114411043832799988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-74832199276311171342018-10-02T17:44:54.600-07:002018-10-02T17:44:54.600-07:00http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-build...http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-build-a-radiodrone-jammer/34089Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-16046492138506954022018-10-02T17:41:12.068-07:002018-10-02T17:41:12.068-07:00From three years ago. In truth, a drone with a Ru...From three years ago. In truth, a drone with a Ruger Charger .22 pistol would be just as deadly and much more stable. Current drones are more stable in flight, too.<br /><br />https://youtu.be/MBBC-xL_MTgPat H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18297461069687246149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-69925898760244083602018-10-02T17:04:51.489-07:002018-10-02T17:04:51.489-07:00I've been flying RC aircraft for more than 20 ...I've been flying RC aircraft for more than 20 years. I am continuously amazed at the capabilities and the ease of flight modern "drones" have. Just about anyone can fly one and master it in not a lot of time.<br /><br />The "350" sized older quad copter I have can lift a payload of around 400 grams. (Yes, nearly 1 pound) I'm truly shocked this has not become more of a thing with miscreants and terrorists. Combine video and some sort of payload and you have some scary stuff. Even the micro drones are incredibly capable if only used for recon.Tactless Wookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772337726377080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-13322337874648957422018-10-02T16:36:59.699-07:002018-10-02T16:36:59.699-07:00jeez... it was death from 5 feet away, now it'...jeez... it was death from 5 feet away, now it's death from above... If it proliferates, I am sure countermeasures will be available soon to jam the radio signals. Cederqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05603951063463035196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-88974555831890619852018-10-02T16:08:30.914-07:002018-10-02T16:08:30.914-07:00Nets will keep them out of the actual house, but i...Nets will keep them out of the actual house, but it isn't getting you much if someone straps a homebuilt Claymore mine to one.<br />Those just make their own door.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-15342303805158394312018-10-02T15:56:31.538-07:002018-10-02T15:56:31.538-07:00It's dirt cheap delivery vehicles for NBC, not...It's dirt cheap delivery vehicles for NBC, not just explosives. The operator doesn't even need line-of-sight since hobby quads usually have a TV transmitter connected to the user's goggles for real time Avataring. Antifa Queers use them at their mob actions. So do the cops.<br /><br />Consumer countermeasures: keep the windows shut or covered with nets, maybe a spectrum scanner for the radio control and TV signals, birdshot with a full choke to get maximum damage at maximum distance, get really good at flying your own high performance drone and hitting another drone with it. That one gets expensive. <br /><br />Lee Van Queef IInoreply@blogger.com