Amazon Does First Drone Delivery
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I wonder how many people are going to try to intercept these.
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@stacksofplates The biggest trouble with trying to capture these is you'd have to shoot at them with a gun. A net type weapon wouldn't be nearly fast enough. Then of course you have to lead the drone, and take a shot.
Which doing this not only violates dozens of gun laws. (at least in the US)
So there are a lot of issues. Also this is only being used in the UK at the moment.
US law still doesn't allow this.
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@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Does First Drone Delivery:
@stacksofplates The biggest trouble with trying to capture these is you'd have to shoot at them with a gun. A net type weapon wouldn't be nearly fast enough. Then of course you have to lead the drone, and take a shot.
Which doing this not only violates dozens of gun laws. (at least in the US)
So there are a lot of issues. Also this is only being used in the UK at the moment.
US law still doesn't allow this.
Not if you have another drone. People have fitted drones with the ability to intercept and control other drones. Or just have a drone that's heavy enough to bring that one down. You don't need a gun at all. You don't even need to be near it to do it.
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@stacksofplates A lot of the same issues persist. Tracking, negative thrust compensation, flight control.
You'd be better of strapping a gun to your drone, and manually flying it up to the other drone to just shoot it down with a remotely fired gun.
Which leads us back to the issues I pointed out originally.
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@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Does First Drone Delivery:
@stacksofplates A lot of the same issues persist. Tracking, negative thrust compensation, flight control.
You'd be better of strapping a gun to your drone, and manually flying it up to the other drone to just shoot it down with a remotely fired gun.
Which leads us back to the issues I pointed out originally.
Ok I'm not going to argue with you about this. If you attach another drone to a drone, it's not going to be able to carry it. Ever tried to fly a drone with a barely bent prop? They don't work, it would be nearly impossible to fly one with something attached to it that isn't carefully weighted in the center. And again, they have drones that can jam the signal and take control anyway.
