about the Gatwick drone... is James Bond/Alias/Scandal all fiction?

[TellItLikeItReallyIs]

So how come they can't jam the signal to the drone, hack a few networks find out who is operating the drone, take over the signal to the drone... and all the things that happen in James Bond etc.

Don't tell me it's all lies

I cant believe they didn't have a contingency plan drones have been flying things into prisons for a while, what if a terrorist tied explosive to it a flew it into a plane landing or taking off. This might be a wake-up call that saves lives instead of a sodding nuisance

They probably can’t confine a jamming signal to just drones, and you don’t want to be jamming air traffic control around Gatwick.

And yes, it is all lies 😂😂

And yes, it is all lies

Nooooooooooooo.

They probably can’t confine a jamming signal to just drones, and you don’t want to be jamming air traffic control around Gatwick.

I would have thought entirely educated by spy films and spy TV that they could intercept the signal to the drone, copy it, and either interfere just with that or take it over.

Kind of the same way thieves copy car keys by hanging round when you lock your car and copying the signal.

I don't see why they haven't shot them down before now, they haven't involved the military until this afternoon, almost 24 hours since the first 'attack'.

drones are controlled using radio waves. We exist in an absolute soup of radio waves. Everything uses them, tv, air traffic control, mobile phones, Wi-fi and of course radios. Trying to find the right one too jam is only easy if you already know the frequency. GIven how long this has been going on, they either don’t know or the operator keeps changing it.

Shooting them down is risky if they contain explosives or nerve gas.

GIven how long this has been going on, they either don’t know or the operator keeps changing it.

I fell very let down by Spy TV.

A rocket pack and I will soon be back!

Smug look "Martini - shaken not stirred"

Well, if they stuck strictly to reality it would be a bit of a shit story 😂

Like if CSI was real, they would send their samples off to a different lab and wait weeks or months for results

They haven't shot then down because they are not that big, very agile and can move unpredictably. Now, where's that bullet going if it misses or passes through it? You'd need to evacuate a cordon a couple of miles in the direction you wanted to shoot, and there is no guard success.

Why does jamming pose a problem for air traffic controllers control when nothing is actually taking off or coming in to land ? Does it bugger whole swathes of SE England and all the air corridors?

This reminds me of a decade or so ago when DH and I watched 24 and spent the next few months requesting "send it to my screen". That pretty much is reality now with Skype but the cursing when it doesn't work easily and the prompt of "remember other people will see everything on your screen" means it is slightly less cool than it sounded then

@JamesBondFilm

A rocket pack and I will soon be back!

Smug look "Martini - shaken not stirred"

How you have the nerve to show your face round here Mr James Bond Film I really don't know. You and your lies.

You have disappointed me.

Not as much as Huck in Scandal though. I thought any hacking of any kind was achievabel.

DH was telling me tonight that apparently they stop drones flying over prisons. No idea if that's true or how but I'd have thought it's something they should've thought about

Why does jamming pose a problem for air traffic controllers control when nothing is actually taking off or coming in to land

I may have sounded like more of an expert than I actually am 😆

But with indiscriminate jamming they would have to switch it off to start operating flights again and then this arsehole could just start flying drones again