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[hinekadon]

well its happened = shoot down drones with a high power microwave
Epirus Introduces Microwave Energy Based Weapon System to Knock Out Drones with High Precision - Epirus
from everything rf latest news letter , got a good picture in the article and well written

[wotnot]

[VroomVroom]

I saw a drone get whacked a couple of months ago We were at Long beach on GKI , one of our fav spots ( also a nude beach ) . This beach is around 1.5klm from the nearest civilisation , and there was one drone hovering over some girls for at least 5 mins. One bloke got sick of it , couldnt find the operator , so chucked a coconut at it , down it went into the surf lol. Nobody came to retrieve the wreckage either , looked like a very expensive one . Ive read since that to claim insurance on one you need to provide the crashed unit.

[hinekadon]

the one in the article is a war machine for several at once designed for battle field situations the technology in the antenna is out of this world

[Uncle Fester]

Don, where is the link to the article?
I found this:

I understand that this is a startup company, the systems are currently not available.

[Uncle Fester]

Ive read since that to claim insurance on one you need to provide the crashed unit.

That is not true, at least for my DJI drone.
You just need to supply the flight data that is recorded in the transmitter, it is similar to a so called Black Box on other aircraft.
However I am pretty sure from the sensor data that they can determine it was hit by an object and not flew into one or over the water due to a malfunction.

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

That is not true, at least for my DJI drone.
You just need to supply the flight data that is recorded in the transmitter, it is similar to a so called Black Box on other aircraft.
However I am pretty sure from the sensor data that they can determine it was hit by an object and not flew into one or over the water due to a malfunction.

I wonder if the insurance pays out for that situation, annoying people at a nude beach.

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[hinekadon]

I get a weekly news letter called "everything rf" and the article was in there , I tried to cut and paste but it wont work for me cheers Don

[wotnot]

[Uncle Fester]

I wonder if the insurance pays out for that situation, annoying people at a nude beach.

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No, losing your drone because of pilot behaviour does not qualify for insurance, at least not with my drone.
I just realised that the black box data might include the down facing orientation camera footage that could have captured this situation.

I don't know if there is an 'at fault pilot' insurance from third party insurance companies.
I suppose anything is possible but there would be plenty of fine print for exclusions, like all insurance have.

[Uncle Fester]

They will build autonomous drones with a tight Faraday cage around all sensitive electronics.
Mirrors will also be employed to reflect any lasers trying to burn thorough the cage, or I will just wrap the whole thing in aluminium foil

[eeprommemory]

well its happened = shoot down drones with a high power microwave
Epirus Introduces Microwave Energy Based Weapon System to Knock Out Drones with High Precision - Epirus
from everything rf latest news letter , got a good picture in the article and well written

this is going to work real well on those pesky airbus / boeing drones.