So, who's behind the Gatwick drone?

[lizzieloo]

It's just some no-mark with inadequate genitals.

 

[Winot]

Heathrow

 

[Chilli.s]

I've yet to see any decent pictures of the drones.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've yet to see any decent pictures of the drones.

Only indecent ones?

 

[Cloo]

I've yet to see any decent pictures of the drones.

I don't actually see anything fishy about this. The drones are small objects which have appeared fleetingly over a large, restricted area with few people in it, so it seems entirely plausible that no one's got a good shot of them.

 

[Supine]

There are photos and videos. They don't make great TV though.

 

[alex_]

Geek.

Anyone who latches onto me at a party and wants to talk about drones is inevitably very boring, and will be heard having the exact same conversation monologue with someone else later.

They won’t stop droning on.

 

[fishfinger]

 

[gosub]

Eurostar.

 

[D'wards]

Bob Mortimer mentioned on his Twitter that in a poll 55% of people don't believe there is a drone at all

 

[The Octagon]

Colonel William Stuart

 

[Dogsauce]

It’s just a very big seagull. They’re in too deep to admit it now.

 

[heinous seamus]

Geek.

Anyone who latches onto me at a party and wants to talk about drones is inevitably very boring, and will be heard having the exact same conversation monologue with someone else later.

Well check out Mr. I-go-to-loads-of-parties

 

[danny la rouge]

Well check out Mr. I-go-to-loads-of-parties

I’ll have you know I do: my wife has lots of friends.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Cliff Fucking Richard

 

[tim]

My money's on Bertie and the chaps at the Drones' Club

 

[ska invita]

Mossad?
Or a disgruntled ex employee of Maplin?

Yeah I've been thinking Maplins connection. Think how many drones they might be sitting on.

 

[Kuke]

Vince Cable in a last ditch throw of the dice to try and keep his shitty party relevant by making a point about how disruptive it'll be if flights are grounded, post B word.

 

[keybored]

Fucking Banksy again

 

[Sue]

My money's on Bertie and the chaps at the Drones' Club

Although they don't have the necessary brain power. Maybe Jeeves is the real criminal mastermind behind all this..?

 

[Celyn]

It was a drone filming contractor who previously worked for the US airforce targeting department, who was supposed to be filming something in Swindon.

... and failed to find much in the way of interesting things to film in Swindon.

 

[moochedit]

Man and Women arrested according to the Guardian.

 

[moochedit]

Fucking Banksy again

Wonder how much the drone would make at auction at sotheby's?

 

[phillm]

Mega thread on a drone forum -gonna wade through it to see what the 'experts' think. Not good for their hobby. Probably have to go back to model railways or airfix .

Gatwick Airport (UK) suspends flights due to Drone activity

This sounds like a pretty sophisticated operation. Multiple drones. Perhaps multiple operators or preprogrammed waypoint flights. Think it’s likely that he/she/they came prepared with many precharged batteries. Lights on large drones - trying to be obvious.

Proof of concept for later extortion attempts? Not familiar with Gatwick. What if ultimate target is Heathrow or Atlanta Hartsfield or Chicago O’Hare? Multiply the number of flights and people disrupted at larger airports. Or perhaps terrorism related. If you can’t protect against a patently obvious drone intrusion how are you going to protect planes and people from bomb laden stealth drones. Not saying that either of those is the reality but the situation is scary far beyond the negative effect it will have on hobby and commercial drone fliers.

Agree that likely to be home built. I don’t know how the drone defense systems that electronically bring down drones work but imagine that someone with some sophistication could figure out how to defeat them.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Wow that's extrapolating quite far! Bomb laden stealth drones

 

[brogdale]

Wow that's extrapolating quite far! Bomb laden stealth drones

Venezuela leader 'survives drone attack'

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Venezuela leader 'survives drone attack'

Yeah - but still.
From a couple of twats messing about with drones at Gatwick to a bomb laden stealth drone attack on O'Hare is a bit of a stretch.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Yeah - but still.
From a couple of twats messing about with drones at Gatwick to a bomb laden stealth drone attack on O'Hare is a bit of a stretch.

An IED doesn’t have to be a large device to cause massive damage, look at the PIRA coffee jar IED’s used in NI.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

An IED doesn’t have to be a large device to cause massive damage, look at the PIRA coffee jar IED’s used in NI.

And?
I'm just saying that I have doubts that this is a dry run for a terrorist drone attack.

 

[kebabking]

Wow that's extrapolating quite far! Bomb laden stealth drones

Not really - as well as the Venezuelan attack, IS havehave a wide variety of drones, everything from something you'd buy on the high street for taking pictures during fighting to home made/adapted things 3 metres across carrying half a dozen grenades and equipped with primitive, but only relatively so, jamming gear.

You can 'stealth it up' buy using carbon fibre and plastic componants as much as possible - it won't be invisible, but it will be smaller - stick a home made jammer on it and you've got something that a commercial air traffic radar wouldn't see until it got very close...