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
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday May 07 2018, @05:54PM
This is an American police force, so yes, that generally seems to be *exactly* what they try to do...