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Old 21st Dec 2018, 19:17
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wiggy
 
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Originally Posted by etudiant
Drones are still pretty expensive and correspondingly rare, so I think it is highly likely that the item will be tracked down by old fashioned police work.
It does however suggest that drones may need a mandatory identifier, so they squawk their serial number every minute and with every transmission.
Depends on what you mean by rare, according to one source “ excluding drones under 250 grams, the CTA estimates 825,000 drones were sold in the U.S. in 2016.”

https://www.recode.net/2017/4/14/146...s-dji-forecast
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