Man Shoots Down Drone Plane

[mchepp]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-000032027.html

I agree 100%.

What they need is a device that can just take the thing out of the air. Something like a cell phone blocker. Just zap it, kill the wireless transmission and down the stupid thing.

What you need is an interceptor.

http://www.popsci.com/rapere-anti-drone-interceptor

[Patch]

I saw the video response from the owners of the drone and they have video footage of the entire flight along with altimeter readings and other telemetry.  If the video and remote telemetry is accurate the drone was at 190 - 200 feet the entire flight and was not directly over his property when he shot at it.  Even if it was over the property, the guy shooting it down was firing a shotgun into the air in a residential area, seems like he made a poor choice in handling the situation.

65-70 yards is long ways for a shot gun to be effective. Lot of different factors involved, such as powder load, and shot size so maybe.

[newtogolf]

65-70 yards is long ways for a shot gun to be effective. Lot of different factors involved, such as powder load, and shot size so maybe.

I don't know the details on the gun but I'm pretty sure shotguns used for skeet shoot at those distances and a drone is a lot bigger than a clay disc.

[inthehole]

.22 short rifle, 4x scope.   Lights out, curtains drawn, window cracked open.    End of problem ...

[Lihu]

I saw the video response from the owners of the drone and they have video footage of the entire flight along with altimeter readings and other telemetry.  If the video and remote telemetry is accurate the drone was at 190 - 200 feet the entire flight and was not directly over his property when he shot at it.  Even if it was over the property, the guy shooting it down was firing a shotgun into the air in a residential area, seems like he made a poor choice in handling the situation.

First of all you can fake anything. . . Second, a shotgun is far better than firing a .40. 190 feet is actually still very low. At that height they are very noisy.