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Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 05 2018, @10:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Last winter, as an FBI hostage rescue team took up an elevated position to assess an unfolding crisis, agents heard the buzz of small drones approaching.

Soon, the tiny unmanned aircraft had the team surrounded, swooping past in a series of "high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them," Joe Mazel, head of the agency's operational technology law unit, told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference in Denver on Wednesday. The swarm caused the group to lose situational awareness of the target.

"We were then blind," Mazel said, according to a Defense One account of the session at the conference focusing on unmanned technologies. "It definitely presented some challenges."

Also at https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/4/17318080/criminals-drones-swarm-fbi-raid

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:09AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:09AM (#676198) Journal

    Mazel declined to elaborate on where or when that incident took place, but said the suspects packed the drones in backpacks and brought them to the area, anticipating the arrival of the FBI.

    What was this for? A bank robbery? Why not just one or two drones to get the positions of the agents? What software or manpower did they have available to coordinate such a swarm? Why did the suspects have time to fuck around with drones instead of getting their asses away from there? Did they get apprehended?

    Now that the scenario (true or not) has been put out there, we can expect it to show up in Law and Order, CSI, NCIS or some other dumb show to help brainwash the public.

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