We're probably less than ten years away from people modifying off the shelf drones to fly faster and carry homemade explosives in order to take down billionaires private jets. I wouldn't be surprised if the precision of GPS devices available to the public is intentionally rolled back soon as well.

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think civilian access to gps is set up in such a way as to protect against this, but I don't know enough and I'm going off an old online thread from memory. So, I'm pretty much an aeronautics expert.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

From my understanding, commercial GPS units have built-in latency issues in the US. This makes it impossible to reliably control position at high velocity. HOWEVER, it is legal to build your own GPS to bypass this. You'd have to be an electrical engineer to design it though

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

You don't really need explosives to take down the jet, all you need is a drone flying in front of a jet taking off or landing and colliding with it or even getting sucked into the engine. That would spell a really bad day for the rich removed. 😁

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bro this is dark as hell.

Like you really think people finna murder billionaires in the future? Like I support it in a way, but you think we’ll get there?

How fast are planes on take off anyway. Fastest drone is 300mph. Some dude and his dad made one. You can see it YT.

[–] Futterbinger@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I think some very high profile murders will be attempted soon, they'll have to if they want to murder a billionaire instead of a trillionaire.

It doesn't really matter how fast the plane is if the drone is coming from the opposite direction and goes through the windshield and explodes in the cockpit.