Friday, May 4, 2018

A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid

 Melanie Richter controls the Yuneec selfie drone 'Breeze 4K' with a smartphone at the IFA 2017 tech fair in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017

Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target. “It definitely presented some challenges.”

2 comments:

  1. I thought they had portable tactical radio blocking gear to neutralize these drone swarms. Oh wait that's the Israelis. The FBI has spent all it's budget resources for the next 5 years trying to get the "goods" on trump

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