Gatwick chaos

[Diggs]

Eco-warriors sounds more plausible. Odd for somebody to do something then not claim responsibility though...
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[Lord Percy]

Eco warriors wouldn't be able to afford a drone like that. Several grand would be better spend on eco-marketing and other educational campaigns, rather than a covert dront-flying operation that just pisses people off.

The main eco warriors in the area are about to be sent down anyway. The folk who blocked Heathrow a couple of years ago, they invaded Stansted recently and the government decided to stick terrorism charges on them just to make an example.

My money's on some wannabe jihadi kids with a big new toy who want to fuck the kafir system, maaaaan.

An interesting thing they said in the news yesterday was that drones are supposed to be designed so they can't be flown near airports. So the folk flying this drone have either got a very special one, or they know how to take off the restrictions. Or... actually drones can fly all over airports and the news was talking bollocks to make sure nobody else has the same idea.

[linuxyeti]

Eco-warriors are pretty well funded, it, could also be a local protest group against the 'master plan', use of taxiway used effectively as a 2nd runway which is apparently backed by 'most' residents of Gatwick, which has only just recently been reported
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Apparently launching a helicopter with nets or guns would just put the helicopter itself at risk. There are other ways to tackle this;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4SIBDyRhm3k
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZVFAsEaSLw

[Im-a-Ridah]

It's actually a conspiracy. The government is doing it to stop people about Brexit over Christmas dinner. Now they can talk about drones instead of droning

[Pigeon]

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[Sister Sledge]

Calling all tech gurus/experts and Fred in his shed.

Heathrow Airport: Can someone confirm that they already have anti-drone systems in place? I reckon authorities don't and are shitting themselves..

The UK really is making itself the laughing stock of the world. We shout that we're mighty and awesome but look at us - we have half of the Middle East living here now and authorities don't know where they are, teenagers on scooters own the streets of the capital, Russia sent some top ranking agents over on public flights and carrying nerve agent and killed some people and flew back unchallenged and now, a whole airport is on tatters because a toy is flying around.

I have my foil hat on: What I actually think this is all about is that our 'leaders' have intelligence that aircraft will be attacked using drones.
We don't have the resources now to tackle this and I expect the country will grind to a halt over it over the holiday period.
Those who want to cause problems in the UK know that violence is no longer needed. They now know that to attack our government, all they need is a few toys, glue etc. It was mentioned in another thread that if the capital cannot function then the country falls to bits. Glue up cash machines, stop the railways working, block roads, break mobile phone networks, break telephone networks. Throw a bicycle into a substation (video it because I like to watch those) It's so easy to do.
(Why are the police outside my door?)
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[Ste]

Racist.

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[Sister Sledge]

Again I'm agreeing with mpd on this one.

Look what it has done - as he says (you are male aren't you?) it's literally obliterated Brexit. All I'm hearing is Edna moaning she won't be able to spend 4 days in Africa etc.
Notice how the very people it's affecting ARE NOT POOR PEOPLE? This is government aiming a distraction at a particular part of society who have money to fly/holiday. It's aimed at distracting those type of voters who could well sway Mays offerings over Brexit.

I now predict that at a very busy/important time our railways will suddenly have to stop being used. It'll be something easily fixed or should I say easily made to happen by government. Something that will ruin peoples 'lives' for 5 days.
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[Ste]

What are the big Brexit stories which have been buried in the news by all the drone stuff?

Has anything interesting or different happened with Brexit stuff?

[Sister Sledge]

It's stalling things. It's removing the majority of observation over the whole thing.
It's at time like this when government accidentally slips through a few laws or regulations that screw people over.
I honestly expect something like that to happen - might not be Brexit related stuff but I betcha a banana something slips through.
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[duhawkz]

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[stinkwheel]

Still haven't heard of a good explamnation for why they didn't just blast the fecking things with a 12 bore.

A good shot will take out a high pheasant at 100 yards and it's not like you can't have a good few gos at it. The thing is moving relatively slowly and predictably compared to a high bird. Shotgun pellets coming back down aren't going to hurt anyone and they haven't got the range to do damage outsaide the airfield.

It also occurred to me that they would just need to fly near one with a helicopter to totally fuck it up with the downwash. You could easily force one down by hovering over it. Good helicopter pilots can land a linesman on a high tension electricity cable so they can certainly out-manouver a remote control drone.
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[duhawkz]

[Ste]

Because they were more interested in finding the culprits than they were in catching or shooting the drone?

[Islander]

[M.C]

[Im-a-Ridah]

It looks like he got too cocky and ended up getting caught in his hi-vis spandex cyclenazi gear

Where is Val?