21 July 2011

Drones in the sky over Canberra?

21 July 2011 | johnboy

On the Beast this morning Chief Police Officer Roman Quaedvlieg was talking about police pursuits and he’s posted the audio online.

Intriguingly around the 6:20 mark he talks about the exploration of putting drones into the skies over Canberra to watch over us all constantly, and help out with monitoring fleeing suspects.

No Hellfire missiles onboard we presume.

[Photo: MQ-9 Reaper, courtesy wikipedia]

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Gungahlin Al7:53 am 28 Aug 11

farnarkler said :

If Apple can track every ipod touch and ipad then surely there’s cheap technology out there to be able to track every car in Australia.

ATMOS anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sontaran_Stratagem

creative_canberran11:16 pm 27 Aug 11

farnarkler said :

If Apple can track every ipod touch and ipad then surely there’s cheap technology out there to be able to track every car in Australia.

Apple can’t do that but anyway.

Mobile phones have long enabled law enforcement and carriers to triangulate the location of users, and these records are kept for a period. Using the data to triangulate a position is not difficult either, they were using it notably back in 2005 to find a missing journalist in the US and before that to pin point the location of someone involved in the John Newman murder.

Henry8210:42 pm 27 Aug 11

farnarkler said :

If Apple can track every ipod touch and ipad then surely there’s cheap technology out there to be able to track every car in Australia.

Apples and oranges, and yeah, you could do it for $100, but you’d need it in every car, and not have thieves buy a $100 GPS/GSM jammer

fgzk9:20 pm 27 Aug 11

Technology that would make speed cameras redundant.

farnarkler said :

If Apple can track every ipod touch and ipad then surely there’s cheap technology out there to be able to track every car in Australia.

farnarkler7:09 pm 27 Aug 11

If Apple can track every ipod touch and ipad then surely there’s cheap technology out there to be able to track every car in Australia.

PBO7:23 pm 21 Jul 11

alaninoz said :

PBO said :

A 5Mw laser will knock out a camera imaging unit for about 10 – 15 secs (maybe more, depending on the camera), would these have protection against such attacks?

A 5Mw laser will take out more than a camera, including all the local substations. I take it you mean 5mw.

Whoops my bad.

Henry825:07 pm 21 Jul 11

creative_canberran said :

Police need all the help they can get apprehending suspects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpFczHd7Aqw&feature=channel_video_title

why is that a fail, and why do they need help apprehending suspects? The vehicle is going too fast to run after them, so they’re following in cars. common sense to me

OverLord4:35 pm 21 Jul 11

Is this another one of these flimsy excuses for the cops to buy cool things? I remember when they bought the jet skis, they were pretty cool.

alaninoz4:09 pm 21 Jul 11

PBO said :

A 5Mw laser will knock out a camera imaging unit for about 10 – 15 secs (maybe more, depending on the camera), would these have protection against such attacks?

A 5Mw laser will take out more than a camera, including all the local substations. I take it you mean 5mw.

TVStar4:09 pm 21 Jul 11

PBO said :

johnboy said :

I reckon they could get a pretty good fix on it and would come looking.

I have no doubt of that, but I dont aim at planes, ppl or cars. What i meant was how much damage can a laser do to the imaging equipment/devices that the drones would have? A 5Mw laser will knock out a camera imaging unit for about 10 – 15 secs (maybe more, depending on the camera), would these have protection against such attacks?

In fact, how much damage would a laser do to a fixed speed camera? I only ask this random question out of curiosity.

Just get some Surface to Air Missiles (SAMS). When I was in the Congo, they could knock out a Soviet Mil Mi-8T helicopter at 7 km. Or maybe an A10 Tankbuster?

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