Nighty Drone Sightings
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A number of threads in the forums about that, here's a couple....
Drones
With all the talk about the drones being flown around nebraska and colorado. With also noone not know anything even the feds. I am wondering if anyone has pickup anything on there scanners at all about maybe drone launch locations, vehicle location, or things for that matter? Ik its a long shot...
Mysterious Drones of Mystery!
Sounds like public safety officials are chasing those drones out on the eastern plains tonight. MAC7 on the CO DTRS. Sightings in the Brush and Wiggins areas. https://kdvr.com/2020/01/06/meeting-held-to-discuss-mysterious-drone-sightings-in-colorado/
Tnx and 73's.A number of threads in the forums about that, here's a couple....
Drones
With all the talk about the drones being flown around nebraska and colorado. With also noone not know anything even the feds. I am wondering if anyone has pickup anything on there scanners at all about maybe drone launch locations, vehicle location, or things for that matter? Ik its a long shot...forums.radioreference.com
Mysterious Drones of Mystery!
Sounds like public safety officials are chasing those drones out on the eastern plains tonight. MAC7 on the CO DTRS. Sightings in the Brush and Wiggins areas. https://kdvr.com/2020/01/06/meeting-held-to-discuss-mysterious-drone-sightings-in-colorado/
BinaryMode
Blondie Once Said To Call Her But Never Answerd
More or less off-topic, but last year a guy was driving real slow down my street and didn't see me in my front yard. I had my garage open because I was doing yard work and he stopped in front of my house. I popped out and surprised him. He said he was looking for his drone and could he come in my back yard to look for it. I said no, I'll look for it later and set it out front if I find it. He gave an awesome response of I don't know what his drone looks like, I said I'm pretty sure I don't have multiple drones in my back yard so if I find one I'm pretty sure it's yours. He left after that.
His goal was to get us in the back yard while his partner stole whatever out of my garage.
His goal was to get us in the back yard while his partner stole whatever out of my garage.
jaymatt1978
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Both are those threads are CLOSEDA number of threads in the forums about that, here's a couple....
Drones
With all the talk about the drones being flown around nebraska and colorado. With also noone not know anything even the feds. I am wondering if anyone has pickup anything on there scanners at all about maybe drone launch locations, vehicle location, or things for that matter? Ik its a long shot...
Mysterious Drones of Mystery!
Sounds like public safety officials are chasing those drones out on the eastern plains tonight. MAC7 on the CO DTRS. Sightings in the Brush and Wiggins areas. https://kdvr.com/2020/01/06/meeting-held-to-discuss-mysterious-drone-sightings-in-colorado/
Ubbe
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We had the same here in Sweden a while ago with a swarm of incidents with drones flying over airports, nuclear power plants and the royal palace and those kind of places that have strict no photo zones and no fly zones. People reported that they where no small hobby drones but much bigger ones. It was never found out who controlled them.
/Ubbe
BinaryMode
Blondie Once Said To Call Her But Never Answerd
I find this very hard to believe, especially in this country with the sheer amount of lackluster knowledge on where they are from. Reason I say that is because primary radar can see an object up to at least a couple feet (1 meter) in length. The things that are flying around New Jersey are reported to be at least 6' (1.8 Meters). Also, most primary radar can see at a minimum elevation of 200' (61 Meters). Some more advanced primary radar can see objects down to 50' (15 Meters). So having said that, "they" (the government and whatnot) know damn well where they are being launched from and where they are and are going at all times.
Ubbe
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Airport radars only see objects that have a transponder reply attached to its echo so it has to be a military radar that can see those objects. But drones can be made of balsa wood and glassfiber and have almost no echo from its few metallic objects like motors and control electronics.
Even if they see where they origin from and where they went low enough to avoid any radar they will be long gone when any police have contacted the military and got that location information and then arrives at that general position that might not be the actual place where they landed.
It will be almost impossible to catch a drone if you can't be there at that moment and shoot it down, or interfere with the radio signals that controls it, but usually that will only trigger a return-to-home function that in many cases uses a gyro and height radar and doesn't need GPS. It takes a helicopter to follow that drone to its landing spot.
/Ubbe
Even if they see where they origin from and where they went low enough to avoid any radar they will be long gone when any police have contacted the military and got that location information and then arrives at that general position that might not be the actual place where they landed.
It will be almost impossible to catch a drone if you can't be there at that moment and shoot it down, or interfere with the radio signals that controls it, but usually that will only trigger a return-to-home function that in many cases uses a gyro and height radar and doesn't need GPS. It takes a helicopter to follow that drone to its landing spot.
/Ubbe
nd5y
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The minimum altitude above ground that something can be detected on radar depends on the hight of the radar antenna and the surround terrain. An ASR on a short tower that's not on a mountain top is not going to pick up aircraft at 50 feet 100 miles away.
BinaryMode
Blondie Once Said To Call Her But Never Answerd
Fiberglass or carbon fiber sounds very intriguing, and I hope we just didn't tip off the adversary. LOL One of these drones has crashed the other day and I'd like to know more about it. I don't read or watch much of the news so have to do some searching. I guess I'm "uninformed."
We are definitely at the cusp of a a whole new battlefield with drones. The Russian, Ukrainian war has certainly shown that. It's kinda like World War One in that the planes back then were dropping grenades or other primitive explosives from the air. Now it's drones. In the coming decade they'll be much more advanced.
Yeah, fiberglass or carbon fiber, that's a real PITA now isn't? Even for FLIR... You'd have to see about using Muons as a passive radar of sorts I suppose... Always a cat and mouse game. As an inventor, I often find that if I can think it so have about 100 or more other people. The things we (the U.S.) have are probably out of this world, let me tell you...
Now's the time for someone to try passive radar with a KrakenSDR I suppose. I would.
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Interesting! Do you have any links about this? Even if they are only in Swedish, that is ok.
Ubbe
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I can google some links for you.
They did had some people coming over the border from Norway to Sweden in the most northern part where Norway also have a border to Russia and they had some suspicious drones with them. I don't remember the whole story if they had done some oil platform droneing in Norway and their Police wanted to talk to them.
cornucopia.se
www.svt.se
www.aftonbladet.se
www.expressen.se
/Ubbe
They did had some people coming over the border from Norway to Sweden in the most northern part where Norway also have a border to Russia and they had some suspicious drones with them. I don't remember the whole story if they had done some oil platform droneing in Norway and their Police wanted to talk to them.
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I've done lots of radar cross section testing of plastic and carbon fiber objects, they do reflect radar signals depending on the shape and how they are facing the radar.
nd5y
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Do any drones have boat type radar reflectors?
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