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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @08:31AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @08:31AM (#676301)

    Are you advocating firing shotguns into the air around urban or suburban areas?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:21AM (#676314)

    Are you implying frojack is Joe Biden?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 07 2018, @12:29AM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:29AM (#676494) Homepage Journal

    In Saudi Arabia, they use machine guns. And it works very well.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by arslan on Monday May 07 2018, @12:34AM (1 child)

      by arslan (3462) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:34AM (#676497)

      Here in Oz, we launch drop bears!

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday May 07 2018, @01:18AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 07 2018, @01:18AM (#676521) Journal

        Here in Oz, we launch drop bears drop bear launch on you

        FTFY. The only thing that's needed then is to place your observations points where the drop bear launch themselves and she'll be apples, mate, no longer losing situational awareness to drones.

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