Originally Posted by
pr00ne
I was referring to the geography of the areas concerned. You can do things over a barren unpopulated area that you cannot do just outside Crawley in Southern England.
True, but I wonder what the ROE were for the Olympics. As the threat was probably assumed to be from much larger aircraft I guess detection time and decision time would have been greater. Also safe arcs were probably calculated.
In the case of LGW it would be possible to operate a safe arc system. True the area has high population density but it is not entirely built up. For obvious reasons drone operation was probably from less populated areas and sniper teams in elevated positions could fire down into safe areas.