We've seen that drone advertising has now officially become a thing with this Candy Crush bollocks. How easy would it be to wreak havoc on them?
FYI: Drone jammers are not legal in the US per FCC regulations. "The use of "cell jammers" or similar devices designed to intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications (signal blockers, GPS jammers, or text stoppers, etc.) is a violation of federal law.
I'm going to lazily repost something I commented that has my thoughts on the matter:
How difficult would it be to destroy covertly? I’ve got a drone, and it’s quite a feeble being. Obviously these things would be a lot bigger than my little camera drone, but it really can’t take a whole lot, surely? My drones rotors sometimes get stuck when I land it in grass that’s over a few inches long. Surely that means a sturdy piece of string could tangle up those advertiser drones.
How surveilled are they? How does one even surveill something so high in the sky in pitch blackness? How hard would they investigate the destruction? It would be a very fucking expensive thing, if even one drone was destroyed. One drone would probably fly into the rest though and then you got mega damage bucks on your hands…
What is the best method of destroying them, do you think? Send up your own drone and drop a bunch of netting over a section? Perhaps having your own drone would be too traceable. Maybe it wouldn’t if it was a home built one though. No trackers that feed info back to a company like MAVIC, for example.
You know what? It's gotta just be balloons right? Like let go of a bunch of balloons upwind of the mass drone formation maybe with some strong string like fishing line. Like hundreds of balloons. You could prepare on site, it's gotta be less expensive than rigging your own counter drones.
If you had a big net with some weights on the edges and then spun a drone holding it pretty fast it should spread the net when you drop it. Or you could just have a couple drones with one big net draped between them, that could be neat.
I dunno if laser pointers fuck with these drones or not. I'm not sure how these mass drone formations synch, is it just one controller broadcasting to each drone or do they have some sensors and dumb AI to coordinate a little too?
The French were training eagles to attack drones, you could always try that lol.
Bet you could use metal twine or something with balloons and then fill them with some weird confetti to fuck with signaling as they pop.
Burning lasers are getting smaller and more powerful these days. You might be able to mount one alongside a jammer. Jammer makes them hold still, laser burns them down. You'd have to make sure to attack from beneath the swarm to avoid accidentally lasering pedestrians, but I'm pretty sure that's where the battery packs are anyway.
You'd need a very, very serious laser to damage a moving drone from hundreds of feet away. Like "Maybe a university could put something like that together but not a DIY person" serious.
barrage balloons