Something New For SATCO ?
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Something New For SATCO ?
Seriously ...
British Engineering Grads come up with an innovative anti-Drone solution ... Looks promising.
SkyWall 100
Probably best not use at Rotary Bases
British Engineering Grads come up with an innovative anti-Drone solution ... Looks promising.
SkyWall 100
Probably best not use at Rotary Bases
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IME, SATCO needs something to capture speeding vehicles on the Manoeuvring Area, which might need to be bigger 
However, a useful step forward to combat the 'Drone Menace'.
However, a useful step forward to combat the 'Drone Menace'.
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For the first 20 seconds I thought that video was a wind-up.
Interesting idea, and one I suspect that will be developed, until no doubt some enterprising soul comes up with some kind of jammer that unscrupulous drone operators will incorporate into their equipment.
Interesting idea, and one I suspect that will be developed, until no doubt some enterprising soul comes up with some kind of jammer that unscrupulous drone operators will incorporate into their equipment.
Shirley the drone operator would have spotted the black landrover hurtling towards his drone, the guy jumping out and assembling the SkyWall out a massive carrying case????
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FantomZorbin,
What shotgun ? All I remember (on the six airfields I air-trafficked on) was a Verey Pistol.
More likely to be private property, I'd have thought - don't know how the (postwar) RAF would've reacted to that !
As for the drones, how about a (officially sanctioned) rifleman ?
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What shotgun ? All I remember (on the six airfields I air-trafficked on) was a Verey Pistol.
More likely to be private property, I'd have thought - don't know how the (postwar) RAF would've reacted to that !
As for the drones, how about a (officially sanctioned) rifleman ?
Danny.
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Danny42C
We had one (service issue) at Finningley when it was the home of the 'Tin-Triangle'.
Do you remember the insert for the Verey pistol that enabled us to use bird-scaring cartridges? When a cartridge was used in an unchoked 12bore the range was very impressive! Maybe that's why the use didn't catch on!
We had one (service issue) at Finningley when it was the home of the 'Tin-Triangle'.
Do you remember the insert for the Verey pistol that enabled us to use bird-scaring cartridges? When a cartridge was used in an unchoked 12bore the range was very impressive! Maybe that's why the use didn't catch on!
We still have the bird scaring cartridge sleeve adaptor to use in a normal 70 odd year old very.
If we got this anti drone weapon we would be waiting a year for the regt to teach us the wrong way how to use it !
If we got this anti drone weapon we would be waiting a year for the regt to teach us the wrong way how to use it !
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Fantom Zorbin,
Yes, our Vereys could fire a "bird scarer" cartridge. This mini-AA fired a small explosive charge fused to burst about 100 ft up, where it made a loud bang and a puff of white smoke.
Unfortunately our crows were very intelligent birds, and soon sussed out that the things were no more danger to them than the fireworks in the grass or on short sticks. They treated all such devices with contempt. (No, I don't really believe the story I once told about one old crow sticking two claws up to us !)
But the Tee Emm story of the horrible death of a wartime WAAF (she and a few lads were larking about with a Verey pistol in the Tower) is sadly true.
I could well see that a twelve-bore would propel such a cartridge much higher, but our Vereys were bored to a size much bigger than 12, so our service-supplied cartridges would not fit.
Danny.
Yes, our Vereys could fire a "bird scarer" cartridge. This mini-AA fired a small explosive charge fused to burst about 100 ft up, where it made a loud bang and a puff of white smoke.
Unfortunately our crows were very intelligent birds, and soon sussed out that the things were no more danger to them than the fireworks in the grass or on short sticks. They treated all such devices with contempt. (No, I don't really believe the story I once told about one old crow sticking two claws up to us !)
But the Tee Emm story of the horrible death of a wartime WAAF (she and a few lads were larking about with a Verey pistol in the Tower) is sadly true.
I could well see that a twelve-bore would propel such a cartridge much higher, but our Vereys were bored to a size much bigger than 12, so our service-supplied cartridges would not fit.
Danny.
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Danny, from the balcony anyone sneaking off early.
OC Ops car.
RAFP dog. Make sure the doors are locked.
OC Ops car.
RAFP dog. Make sure the doors are locked.
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The Upland Geese on Stanley airfield were generally unimpressed by the bird-scaring cartridges. I found a second round, very quickly after the first one, tended to wake the dozy b******s up, and then a quick third round might, on a good day, get them to move. Bloody nuisance, they were.
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MPN, a BDU 33 would get them to lift off but they flew a tighter circuit than the F15 and pancakes long before the next bomb.