Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones

Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by michaelcampbell on Saturday December 12, 2015 @04:54PM (#10724308)

Seems it would be equally effective, and a lot less weight, to just drape a bunch of monofilament lines below rather than a full-on net. Those would get tangled in the "bad" drone's rotors well enough, I'd reckon.

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Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by adrtessier on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:41PM (#10724472)

Running steel cable or nets, instead of monofilament wire, is pretty much SOP for denying an area from rotorcraft. There's a pretty cool article on Wikipedia about prison escapes by helicopter [1] that explains how this is often implemented in high-security correctional facilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...

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Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by seansmccullough on Saturday December 12, 2015 @09:56PM (#10725219)

I like it how there are green or red helicopter icons in the table to indicate success or failure.

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Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by adrtessier on Saturday December 12, 2015 @10:40PM (#10725330)

Yeah, somebody had fun with that article. It's one of my favorites on Wikipedia.

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Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by shpx on Saturday December 12, 2015 @07:49PM (#10724900)

But then you don't get the reusability, unless you have spools and can cut the lines, which probably gets you back to the weight of a net.

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Re:Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other dr... by leereeves on Saturday December 12, 2015 @06:56PM (#10724745)

A modern version of barrage balloons.

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