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UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dear, in the middle of a drone drama Danish police get a big FPV drone.

The lettering is a good idea but it's not enough this needs to have ADS-B or a unique strobe colour/sequence.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Ny politi-drone skal hjælpe med grænsekontrol

Syd- og Sønderjyllands Politi har indkøbt en drone, der skal patruljere ved den dansk-tyske grænse.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 2d

A small insight into Gatwick 2018 given the current drone dramas in Europe.

These e-mail snippets show the frustration of the UK Home Office as LGW hour after hour after hour, after request, after request, failed to provide video evidence, finally providing "potato" quality.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 3d

The latest news from Denmark...

The imaginary Danish drones, very much in keeping with imaginary drones are proving bloody inconvenient to prove.

The question is how many millions of €s will be spaffed before the authorities realise they're imaginary?

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 3d

So these are the "drones" that closed Vilnius Airport, it seems balloons have a tendency to be reported as drones.

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4d

Lithuanian border guards intercepted 11 balloons carrying contraband cigarettes from Belarus. The operation disrupted Vilnius airport for nearly 30 hours. Around 18,000 packs of cigarettes were seized during this unusual “tobacco air drop.”

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 3d

Not true of all those facilities depending on the country but reckless use should of course be tackled appropriately.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 3d

You'd be shooting down a civilian aircraft in most cases. Though some of those arguing for escalation weren't just arguing for reactive actions.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 3d

No, the people advocating for military action have no idea how drones work, that said at least one airport deployed snipers demonstrating there are some in authority that are drunk on power and overreaction.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

Kyle makes good night sky observations, key people in the drone industry have been saying the sightings are not drones, mistakes are happening at airports but there are too many influential social accounts calling for shooting things down or escalating towards war.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

As with Copenhagen & Aalborg, Munich was not an airport with a suitable counter drone system, so it's very likely mistaken sightings have led to closures.

All those airports have rolled in portable systems afterwards, then suddenly mistakes stop.
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UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

Do you want to see the capability that is now finally at Munich Airport but should have been there all along?

Of course you do, by the look it is the MODAR-BC by OptoPrecision.

I'd wager now the drone reports will stop, or if they don't there will be evidence for once.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

In my view, officials in Denmark that were pushing a UAP conspiracy theory of drone ships as serious shouldn't be in the job.

The idea there are large drones being launched with no detection that then decide to illuminate ICAO lighting is pure idiocy.

Last year the conspiracy was Iranian ships.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

Every airport has incidents, often with tourists flying drones closer than they should. The usual process is a C-UAS system directs police to the pilot to have a word.

What's being exposed in the EU, is airports having put profit over passenger safety & not having bought C-UAS.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

From Bild news in Germany.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

Do you want to see the capability that is now finally at Munich Airport but should have been there all along?

Of course you do, by the look it is the MODAR-BC by OptoPrecision.

I'd wager now the drone reports will stop, or if they don't there will be evidence for once.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

The lack of reports from Munich Airport tonight I'd wager means that they have begun to get their sh#t together and have briefed staff better against reporting lights.

a man wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt has the word baywatch on the bottom

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt has the word baywatch on the bottom

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UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

I can't share it (yet) as it would endanger the camera person due to being able to geolocate, but I've seen video within the last hours of what a real Russian drone attack looks like & they're not lit up, they can be heard & it's far more terrifying not seeing them.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 4d

These will 100% be pointed at normal aircraft traffic. If a GNSS jamming mode is picked there could be collateral damage.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

I used press email for sUAS News to push for evidence inc. EO/IR from the police & military, also sent them some tips on verifying sightings.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

They won't because they're not there.

There are loads from Denmark, all that I've seen so far being aircraft.

There's incompetence by authorities across Europe unaware of how to quickly analysis the night sky.

www.metabunk.org/threads/cope...

Copenhagen airport closure due to reported drone activity

Copenhagen airport has been temporarily closed to arrivals and departures due to a reported sighting of 2-3 large drones in the area. There's not really much in the form of substantive confirmation of...

www.metabunk.org

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

It won't stop when they're almost certainly reacting to lights in the sky.

Then there's the tactical incompetence of deploying helicopters over the airport adding to the sightings.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

Technically feasible is only true to a point. You're talking claimed huge craft, well they're not getting past both radar and EO/IR repeatedly.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

I've been using FOIA have even fought 4 tribunal cases so far to expose the fact on Gatwick.

I did this talk last year, the NPAS police helicopter from Redhill was the initial craft filmed and photographed, I spoke to Eddie whose photo was used.

youtu.be/kRYEfQFHAeI?...

The Gatwick Incident - UAVNZ Conference 2024

YouTube video by UAVNZ

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

We do really. It was a ballsup.

I'm fighting via the ICO right now to get the lessons learned document made public but the DfT doesn't want it to see the light of day.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

BBC Debunked the drone ship theory against Iran last year. Same theory just got reinvented for Russia.

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UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 12d

Why is it even BBC journos can't even research the BBC's own Verify piece from last year for New Jersey & realise, police, military & government officials have made mistaken drone sightings at scale before?

Denmark is repeating mistakes from Gatwick, New Jersey, New York, Wright-Patterson etc.

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

That was a conspiracy theory amplified by the UAP scene, frankly officials that believed that shouldn't be in the job.

Same theory was Iran & China before.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The ‘shadow fleet’ tanker raid was pure theatre

The news footage was satisfyingly reminiscent of Mission: Impossible. Masked French commandoes swarmed up the side of the rusty oil tanker Boracay, assault rifles drawn, and commenced their search for...

www.spectator.co.uk

UAV Hive @uavhive.bsky.social · 5d

I've been following it closely, been actively speaking to a journo there. It's been a panic from the start.

They even crashed the portable counter drone system they have to deploy to airports (showing the airports don't have what they should).