So, who's behind the Gatwick drone?

[Mr.Bishie]

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

No one’s alluded that this is a dry run etc...just that drones used as an IED is a very real potential threat.

 

[brogdale]

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

Agreed; it probably wasn't a 'dry run' for such an attempt...but it will have done nothing to dampen interest in such capability.

 

[kebabking]

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

WW1 wasn't a dry run for WW2, but it informed the participants enormously about what worked and what didn't...

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oh well fair enough. Let's hope this is not a dress rehearsal for something bigger then.

 

[Badgers]

Get some dogs

 

[iona]

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.

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...

I love how urban has an expert for absolutely anything you could think of, from baking and gardening to stealth bomber drones, nuclear missiles and how best to dispose of a (hypothetical) corpse

 

[brogdale]

Get some dogs

She makes May look like a very smart woman in comparison.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

WW1 wasn't a dry run for WW2, but it informed the participants enormously about what worked and what didn't...

Right...OK....I see what you mean.

 

[SpookyFrank]

She makes May look like a very smart woman in comparison.

She's got a plan to fight climate change too. Paint a big sign on the white cliffs of Dover saying 'No Climate Change Allowed'.

 

[brogdale]

She's got a plan to fight climate change too. Paint a big sign on the white cliffs of Dover saying 'No Climate Change Allowed'.

Genuine quarter-wit, that one.

 

[WWWeed]

Get some dogs

They are so out of touch our government. Everyone knows you use cats to deal with drones:

 

[moochedit]

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.

Welcome to internet forums

 

[ska invita]

Nice to see a good gender balance amongst the gatwick drone flyers

 

[phillm]

You can make your very own DIY drone killer.....

https://makezine.com/projects/build-wi-fi-drone-disabler-with-raspberry-pi/

 

[mauvais]

Nice to see a good gender balance amongst the gatwick drone flyers

'Has WiSTEM gone too far?'

 

[isvicthere?]

This guy...

Uncle test-flying nephew’s Christmas present in deep shit

 

[paolo]

Guardian pic suggests Gilet Jaune involvement.

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I love how laboriously literal that Graun caption is.

"Police officers and others stand near equipment on the rooftop of a building"

Equipment.
A building.
And others.

 

[Gerry1time]

Gatwick: police examine drone after former suspects are exonerated

But the force’s head of crime also warned that wet weather could have washed away evidence, saying there were no pictures or video of the drone incursions into the airspace around Gatwick despite 67 sightings and that there was “always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place”.

You know what else doesn't leave evidence and isn't able to be photographed? Illuminati space lizards, that's what.

 

[Santino]

I love how laboriously literal that Graun caption is.

"Police officers and others stand near equipment on the rooftop of a building"

Equipment.
A building.
And others.

It's for blind or partially sighted people who use the internet, isn't it?

 

[The39thStep]

There's always a possibility that initially there was a drone but after news coverage it was withdrawn and then people started to report what they thought were sightings of drones. A bit like the bogus social worker phenomena .

 

[Dogsauce]

Has nobody suggested it was carried out by people working for a company that sells anti-drone technology yet?

 

[William of Walworth]

I love how urban has an expert for absolutely anything you could think of, from baking and gardening to stealth bomber drones, nuclear missiles and how best to dispose of a (hypothetical) corpse

And how a mere three-page thread gets started by an entirely different Urban regular, to avoid any necessity of even trying to start to read cupid_stunt 's main (41 page ) Gatwick drone thread

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Looks like it'll remain a mystery.

Strange , i chatted to folks who think it never happened so it's all a bit baffling.

 

[Saul Goodman]

It didn't happen.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

There's always a possibility that initially there was a drone but after news coverage it was withdrawn and then people started to report what they thought were sightings of drones. A bit like the bogus social worker phenomena .

I agree with this to some degree but when you've got airport employees and pilots seeing multiple drones there had to have been something.

 

[alex_]

I agree with this to some degree but when you've got airport employees and pilots seeing multiple drones there had to have been something.

The Loch Ness monster ?

 

[The39thStep]

I agree with this to some degree but when you've got airport employees and pilots seeing multiple drones there had to have been something.

There might well have been .