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Small drone with camera hovering outside my window today.

#261
Stewie26 said:
I have read all the post on this thread on the different methods to bring down an unwelcome drone. I must say some of your ideas are very creative. I think the best solution, and most fun too, is to buy a cheap RC fighter and try to ram the drone's rotor blades Kamikaze style. Like I said earlier, I have had only one encounter with the drone but if it shows up again I will try to take it down. I just ordered this RC fighter off Amazon.com. It was only $55.95 so it is a pretty small investment. If the offending camera drone does not show up again, then I still win by having the fun of leaning how to fly this thing.
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Get yourself a Hurricane or Spitfire. SITUATION: Battle of Britain, you're being vectored up to intercept a lone Junkers JU-88 in the evening hours. It's probably on a recon or bomb damage assessment mission. ACTION: You get the Junkers in your sights and squeeze the trigger. Nothing happens. ARGH! You're guns won't feed(%%$^# armorers). Only one thing to do now; ram the tail section of the Junkers with the prop while hoping to survive and hit the silk. Now, push that throttle to the firewall and get in there! "V" for victory!
 
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#262
BboogieXVII said:
...I would look into jamming the signal or even finding a way to control that sucker...
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If it's a Parrot drone

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it's controlled by an iPhone. If it's something like this

http://www.atlantahobby.com/Store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=17125

It is operating on 2.4GHz and employs either frequency hopping or some other method to electronically link and lock transmitter and receiver together and maintain a strong, interference free link between the two.

Don't know much about the iPhone control, but the 2.4 systems are very hard to hack. They were produced in response to complaints from modelers of only have a limited number of freqs with the old FM and PCM systems. With the old technology it was possible to "walk" on someone's freq by running a transmitter on the same channel they were on, and if you had a more powerful TX you could pirate their vehicle. At the very least they would lose control and the vehicle would crash.

When 2.4GHz tech first hit, a flying model magazine did a test by flying 100 aircraft at once on the same field using the new (at the time) 2.4 radios, and not a single problem was encountered.

Multi rotor copters depend on very sophisticated software to fly so if you could come up with a variable RF transmitter with enough range, you could just find the RF required to cause the onboard computer to glitch and it's bye bye drone.
 
#266
OP, That little f22 style copter you ordered will be a blast to fly inside - outdoors it probably won't do too well if it's windy. Also make sure you do range check, some of those "toy" copters will just fly away in oblivion if they go out of range.

If you want to do a test run I would happily let you fly that into one of my "drones" and we can see if it brings it down. may the best man win!!

 
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#269
Stewie26 said:
I think I understand your battle plan. Hover over offending drone and lower paperclip/fishing line into offending drone's rotor blades?
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Yes, intruder drone pilot may well have eyes on his drone. Mostly I hope he could be unconcerned by your approach at much higher altitude. The other advantage is you are tagging much more space at any one time. You only need fly over, not directly into, your opponent.

All in all, I admire the sportsmanship of your interceptor but still think the gas cannon streamers have the best chance of success. Chances are you'll only ever get one attempt.
 
#270
Inertialsky said:
OP, That little f22 style copter you ordered will be a blast to fly inside - outdoors it probably won't do too well if it's windy. Also make sure you do range check, some of those "toy" copters will just fly away in oblivion if they go out of range.

If you want to do a test run I would happily let you fly that into one of my "drones" and we can see if it brings it down. may the best man win!!

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After seeing the photos of your drone stable and you sharing knowledge and expertise about drones, I would be crazy to accept a "Best man win" challenge against a seasoned drone pilot. I only have flown an RC model once in my life and it did not go to well. The single gas engine, fixed wing model never made it to a second flight. Actually, I thought the RC model was much more difficult to control compared to flying a real plane. I think you mentioned in an earlier post that the newer four or more rotor blade designs are much easier to fly than the old school RC planes. Hope that's true. BTW, Thanks for the video link.
 
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Unprofessional said:
Get yourself a Hurricane or Spitfire. SITUATION: Battle of Britain, you're being vectored up to intercept a lone Junkers JU-88 in the evening hours. It's probably on a recon or bomb damage assessment mission. ACTION: You get the Junkers in your sights and squeeze the trigger. Nothing happens. ARGH! You're guns won't feed(%%$^# armorers). Only one thing to do now; ram the tail section of the Junkers with the prop while hoping to survive and hit the silk. Now, push that throttle to the firewall and get in there! "V" for victory!
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Love it. Might has well make it fun and sporting.
 
#276
Stewie26 said:
I only have flown an RC model once in my life and it did not go to well. The single gas engine, fixed wing model never made it to a second flight. Actually, I thought the RC model was much more difficult to control compared to flying a real plane. I think you mentioned in an earlier post that the newer four or more rotor blade designs are much easier to fly than the old school RC planes. Hope that's true. BTW, Thanks for the video link.
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To make it a fair fight I would use this little guy. Yours would actually probably win since it has that foam shell..

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Joe Louvar said:
tobias3469's drones would totally toast those shower drones in a dogfight. But, a paintball gun would take them all down. ;)
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way ahead of you.

 
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Way fun - but the paintball drone operator is lucky the paintball rifle guy never shot back, he only ran (and in a straight line) instead of standing still and blasting the drone down before it could target him. But a drone with a paintball gun looks like a lot of fun. BTW, thanks for sharing all the fun drone videos - I think if more people saw how much fun drone are, there would be a lot less people paranoid of them.
 
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Joe Louvar said:
Way fun - but the paintball drone operator is lucky the paintball rifle guy never shot back, he only ran (and in a straight line) instead of standing still and blasting the drone down before it could target him. But a drone with a paintball gun looks like a lot of fun. BTW, thanks for sharing all the fun drone videos - I think if more people saw how much fun drone are, there would be a lot less people paranoid of them.
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Those shots in the video reminded of some sci-fi movie I saw a few years back where the police drone was flying behind some guy running away and the drone blows the guy away. I guess it's not sci-fi anymore.
 
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Stewie26 said:
Those shots in the video reminded of some sci-fi movie I saw a few years back where the police drone was flying behind some guy running away and the drone blows the guy away. I guess it's not sci-fi anymore.
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I've seen the military land drones with fire power on utube - check them out.

EDIT: Oh, and get a paintball gun, lol. ;)
 
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