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Re:Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption by semi-extrinsic on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:01AM (#18739733)
I recon for ~$300 in parts your "typical hardware hacker" could build a rig that would focus 600W of microwave energy into a parabolic dish with reasonably tight beam. That shouldn't really affect anything but the drone.

If I was building a drone to do sabotage, I'd build a comms link around modulated NIR lasers targeted with mirrors rotated by microsteppers.

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Re:Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption by 7952 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:34AM (#18739839)
Did you see the article about optical links for micro sats?

http://news.mit.edu/2018/laser-pointing-system-satellites-tr...

I wonder if you could communicate with a drone from orbit (obviously in clear conditions).

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Re:Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption by unethical_ban on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:51PM (#18742648)
*reckon

I thought you were saying you do reconnaissance for $300 before finishing the sentence.

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