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Old 13th Oct 2015, 22:47
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Mr Magnetic
 
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Unless you can verify in advance that your target will fail in a safe way, that seems like an unacceptable level of risk. Remember, anyone can DIY a drone with relative ease these days and the market for commercial products gas exploded. You simply cannot rely on the features advertised by any particular manufacturer being present in the speck that you happen to be looking at in the sky.

I suspect that this technology would prove more useful in situations where collateral damage is deemed more tolerable than it is within yards of a civilian airport in peace time.

I may be wrong, but this sounds like defence equipment to me...
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