It's exciting to think about and would make a great Hollywood plot line but how close it this to reality?thongbong said:Will happen, just a matter of time.
Meta4 said:It's exciting to think about and would make a great Hollywood plot line but how close it this to reality?thongbong said:Will happen, just a matter of time.
Bad guys have had radio control available for 50 years but haven't shown much interest.
A Phantom has a payload of 300g.
For comparison Timothy McVeigh put 5,000 pounds of explosive into the truck he rented for a lot less than a Phantom cost.
The alternatives are so much more effective and easier that they are what the bad guys go for.
They are looking for results rather than hollywood excitement.
For anyone wanting some mindless hollywood bad guy using radio control action ...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiuizz ... shortfilms
With somewhere like 300 million guns in the USA, the threat of one on a drone is nothing.thongbong said:how about a pistol with low recoil like a 22 pointed straight down over a crowd.
Those sort of nutcases are going to cause trouble whether they have a drone or not but generally they can cause more trouble and a lot easier with other methods.thongbong said:As much as I love this hobby, there are already a handful of nutcases planning to use this tech to do some nasty %@@#$. But I sure hope you're right though.
I'm sure there's some CIA algorithm scouring the web for the exact key terms found in this thread, all in all, I hope you're right. I think a peeping tom by drone is far fetched, but lethal activity by one is not... as you have also admitted above. Building a heavy lift quad is very easy and cheap. But for all our sakes lets hope the bad guys dont know how.Meta4 said:With somewhere like 300 million guns in the USA, the threat of one on a drone is nothing.thongbong said:how about a pistol with low recoil like a 22 pointed straight down over a crowd.
Those sort of nutcases are going to cause trouble whether they have a drone or not but generally they can cause more trouble and a lot easier with other methods.thongbong said:As much as I love this hobby, there are already a handful of nutcases planning to use this tech to do some nasty %@@#$. But I sure hope you're right though.