We’ve seen that drone advertising has now officially become a thing with this Candy Crush bollocks. How easy would it be to wreak havoc on them?
FYI: Drone jammers are not legal in the US per FCC regulations. "The use of “cell jammers” or similar devices designed to intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications (signal blockers, GPS jammers, or text stoppers, etc.) is a violation of federal law.
I’m going to lazily repost something I commented that has my thoughts on the matter:
How difficult would it be to destroy covertly? I’ve got a drone, and it’s quite a feeble being. Obviously these things would be a lot bigger than my little camera drone, but it really can’t take a whole lot, surely? My drones rotors sometimes get stuck when I land it in grass that’s over a few inches long. Surely that means a sturdy piece of string could tangle up those advertiser drones.
How surveilled are they? How does one even surveill something so high in the sky in pitch blackness? How hard would they investigate the destruction? It would be a very fucking expensive thing, if even one drone was destroyed. One drone would probably fly into the rest though and then you got mega damage bucks on your hands…
What is the best method of destroying them, do you think? Send up your own drone and drop a bunch of netting over a section? Perhaps having your own drone would be too traceable. Maybe it wouldn’t if it was a home built one though. No trackers that feed info back to a company like MAVIC, for example.
How high up are they? Would a slingshot work? Could be kinda fun
As far as I now they’re treated as aircraft by the FAA, with all the legal consequences that entails. They also had to get a special permit to fly the advertising drones at that altitude and in that airspace.
If you could get a small drone to drop a nut with a long line of silk into the rotors of the advertising drone, the rotors will suck in the string and jam itself either with the mass of sting or the nut at the end. If you could do this sequentially with a magazine of nut-string combos, you could take out quite a few enemy drones.
Destroying them is already illegal. Why limit yourself by discounting jammers?
It’s not the FCC. It’s the FAA. They’re legally registered aircraft. Shooting down an aircraft is about as big of a felony as you can do.
I have known people who illegally transmitted to fuck with HAM boomers and had no consequences.
Just like every other illegal activity, you gotta assess your risks and act accordingly.
Ham boomer sounds like the most boomer thing (I know ham radios are different to ham you buy at the grocers, but the mental image is funny)
Shotgun
Nah. They’re far too high up. Shotguns have very limited range. Even hitting a clay pigeon from a few dozen yards takes skill.
