Bladerunner: Brought to us by Homeland Security

I'll bet they could equip this with tasers.



CONROE, Texas) -- A local police force north of Houston is about to become the first in Texas and one of the first in the nation to deploy an unmanned drone for police work, and this one could someday carry weapons.

It's called the "ShadowHawk" remote controlled helicopter and police brag that people on the ground can barely hear it when it's flying at ideal altitudes.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Conroe paid $300,000 in federal homeland security grant money and Friday it received the ShadowHawk unmanned helicopter made by Vanguard Defense Industries of Spring.

A laptop computer is used to control the 50-pound unmanned chopper, and a game-like console is used to aim and zoom a powerful camera and infrared heat-seeking device mounted on the front.
http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/first-unmanned-police-drone-texas-set-to-launch-north-of-houston

or a 338 Lapua....

A projectile with some wire trailing behind it ought to bring it down

Can't be giving people ideas. :evilgrin:

It's like one of the target drones used for Stinger training.

with some ball bearings secreted in the potato.

Or a pumpkin trebuchet...

I'm beginning to find this idea intriguing.

As an engineer, I'm ashamed of many engineers. Engineers without conscience!

edit- OK, this is weird. I'm actually wearing my Bladerunner t-shirt as I type! :)

the banality of evil. Your comment reminds me of a line from Lear; "If it be mans' work, I'll do it." Said by the trooper who goes off to murder Cordelia in her cell. We're an adaptable species. There's pretty much nothing we won't do to one another.

patrol cars and on bikes, all way to much. They should be sequestered in closets until needed. :sarcasm:

Isn't that what this is?

who is watching whom. Anymore, many of these police outfits need more surveillance on them than those being watched.

Just a larger version of the RC helicopters that are commercially available. Maybe we should put a few of our own RC copters/planes in the air over demonstrations so we have our own record of what actually happens. Why should the police have all the fun with the toys?

I can only bet that as soon as we tried something like that the FAA would sound off. And of course they'd be in our favor. Because it's of the people, by the people, for the people. NOT.

especially over a crowd of people.

to fire bags of flour up into the sky where it will disperse and suspend. If that thing flies into a cloud of grain dust - WOOF!

n/t

Tape, cans, some lighter fluid. And bags of flour.

Easy peasy.

And if anyone has ever seen what a spark can do with a grain dust cloud, well, it's impressive and completely safe until it is suspended in the air. All it takes is one spark...

Not according to the videos I've seen. It's really, really loud.

n/t