It reminds me Watchbird https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579
Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
The version of this I heard is that the first air-to-air shots were fired during the Border War (US / Mexico) in around 1911 or 1912. Somebody unloaded his six-shooter and didn't hit a darn thing. Just before WWI, Caproni designed an airplane with a machine gun mounted above the propeller [0], but the military wasn't that interested in it. It wasn't until the invention of the interrupter gear (credited in part to Rol…
Note that prior to that gear you would hit your own propeller.
Before, Machine guns were either mounted outside the propeller circle (which made aiming harder) or propellers had deflectors on the back which made them less efficient.
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#44Something like this seems like it would be more efficient: http://www.cadincadout.com/dronedefender-radio-gun-waves-dow...
That seems dangerous if the quadcopter falls down in the middle of a freeway or something
Right. And therefore rather pointless as the reason to capture these drones is because of safety issues.
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#45The only next counter-logical (criminal) course of action I can think of is counter thieves using drones with nets to catch the police drones with nets.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that prior to that gear you would hit your own propeller.
Before, Machine guns were either mounted outside the propeller circle (which made aiming harder) or propellers had deflectors on the back which made them less efficient.
... and a little (quite) dangerous.
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#47Is flying your drone away from the nets resisting arrest?
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#48I recall that in the beginnings of World War I, planes were primarily used as surveillance tools. So the germans and french would send their planes above a battlefield, and the pilots would see each other, sometimes even wave at each as they passed by. A little bit later someone brought a shotgun on one of the planes and the rest is literal history.
I'm very curious as to what the reaction was of the first pilot that was shot at. My guess is he was probably be thinking more "Wow, what an asshole," than he would be thinking that the aggressor's action makes sense in the context of war.
That probably was their reaction considering it's usually the governments that have issues with each other, not the people. For instance, I have no problem with Russians or Chinese, I think in general they're nice people, as with any population, but our governments have problems with each other and that causes us to fight.
I get we're, for the most part, fighting the ideologies of the other country, but it's a real shame we can't live in peace. It's the few bad apples - the greedy, the criminals, the oppressors, the deceiving - that ruin it for everybody.
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#49The only next counter-logical (criminal) course of action I can think of is counter thieves using drones with nets to catch the police drones with nets.
Or laser immolation? Or a cloud of little wires to clog the propellers? Magnetic attack? Helium balloon defense? As someone said above: Begun, the drone wars have.
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#50People will probably start building bigger drones with bigger nets to catch the police drones. It's just a matter of time.
The ancient profession of netmaking will be completely relevant to high tech. Science fiction writers give up.