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Watch Japan's Police Drone Catch A Quadcopter
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The future is clumsy as heck. Yesterday, Tokyo Police launched their first anti-drone squad, a team designed to enforce new rules banning drones from dense urban areas. To stop bad guys with drones, they have big net-wielding drones of their own, built ...
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[Mike]

 

[holtneil]

Well you can do one of two things get a faster quad than they have or sharpen up your props to cut through the net lol

 

[Mike]

Haha. Their copter is massive and it's dragging a huge net. Shouldn't be too hard to outrun it!

 

[holtneil]

I think they always take it to far , seeing lots of the quads are made over there

 

[Mike]

I think they always take it to far , seeing lots of the quads are made over there

I would love to see a police chase with the net copter trying to catch someone's faster copter.

 

[holtneil]

I didnt see any blue flashing lights and siren lol

 

[Mike]

Haha. I'm going to hang a volleyball net from a quadcopter and call it a police drone.

 

[Gramps]

I didnt see any blue flashing lights and siren lol

Lol and he did it with no backup........

 

[holtneil]

LMPO

 

[RAnst4038]

It's a staged event, the chased operator wasn't even trying to escape. By the time police got close enough and deployed in real life the suspect drone's battery would be dead. The only chance to stop another drone in real life would be to fire a high power microwave scrambler at it.