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The US Government Is Building A 'Drone Dragnet' For Battlefields (thestack.com)
The US government plans to launch "a three and a half year initiative to develop an urban drone detection system." An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: The Aerial Dragnet program is to use off-the-shelf commercial components and mostly established technologies and methods to create a network of floating or tethered platforms that will ultimately provide 95% efficient drone identification in urban areas up to 180 square kilometers. The call to proposers states that the total cost of the system for a city should be around $90,000, and would likely include the ability to identify the micro-Doppler signatures given off by UAVs -- and birds.
Unmanned aerial systems are becoming platforms "for hostile reconnaissance, targeting, and weapon delivery," warns the government document, noting drones are hard to detect because they're small and fly slowly at low altitudes. "In future urban battlegrounds, U.S. forces will be placed at risk by small UAVs which use buildings and naturally-occurring motion of the clutter to make surveillance impractical..."
Unmanned aerial systems are becoming platforms "for hostile reconnaissance, targeting, and weapon delivery," warns the government document, noting drones are hard to detect because they're small and fly slowly at low altitudes. "In future urban battlegrounds, U.S. forces will be placed at risk by small UAVs which use buildings and naturally-occurring motion of the clutter to make surveillance impractical..."
Now I know to release a flock of birds when I fly a drone.
I cannot for a moment imagine this finding use as anything but a new abusive scheme, so long as it's the US government coming up with it.
Probably won't catch a single terrorist, but watch it work with unbelievable power and efficiency the day we try to defend ourselves from some congressmen who want to hunt some poor for sport.
show that year one and two's tech was outdated?
It's a fucking election year, and somehow 2016's least convincing lie has nothing to do with it.
First thing I thought was "prime enemy target".
Then, "WW1 observation balloons", which were also prime enemy targets.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
necause oh noes someone might start doing unto us - what we are doing to them!!
Why would a city in some other country spend money to make things easier for the US Army? Oh wait, I think I $éà m*@#./...&*(
no carrier
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Other than areas of large no-fly areas (Washington DC?) or a temporary security corridor, such as when Air Force One is in the area, it doesn't seem to be cost effective to have everywhere.
Seems like one more step towards having more surveillance over a given area.
Now that the Airspace is under surveillance, better find a way to monitor underground. Maybe there are gophers wearing explosive vests? Better require all cities to track them varments. You know....just in case.
SIGNAL RECEIVED .... Skynet connectng to drone dragnet .... SIGNAL COMPLETED
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
I'm being threatened daily by drones by the thousands screaming overhead. Wait, no I'm not. The only drone I've ever seen was my own.
Or it could be used peacefully and be part of a system to manage drones used in peaceful pursuits. The FAA is currently ill-equipped to deal with civilian drones from my information gathering.
This pork is delicious!
Where will all the data go?
If Snowden was here he'd point out that this will only be used against americans by their government.