Drones are now used as weapons as well, which means we need to figure out a good counter to them anyway.
Some (most?) prisons are near built-up areas, which means non-kinetic solutions.
- glue-ball cannon
- EMP cannon
- water cannon
- an eagle
Some (most?) prisons are near built-up areas, which means non-kinetic solutions.
- glue-ball cannon
- EMP cannon
- water cannon
- an eagle
1. Now everybody within X miles hates your guts because phones and wifi are broken and emergency services can't talk to one another and airplanes have to detour while the FCC is sharping their knives.
2. Criminals who don't care about being nice people will just use frequencies you can't/won't jam, perhaps even the ranges that let the guards' walkie-talkies work, as long as the encoding doesn't lead to telltale noises.
I imagine the ideal location would be one where (A) the drone can sit unattended without being in casual view from passerby (B) it's hard for law-enforcement to set up an ambush (C) someone can walk/drive past without looking suspicious.
Come to think of it, that might be good operation-security even for regular runs, where the drone never returns to the same starting point. That way if someone sees where it came from, they don't necessarily know it will go, and vice-versa.
A friend flew his drone from the car window. It flew back 10 km.
It doesn't need to get all the way home, just far enough away in the right general direction without hitting an obstacle... And most prisons are not surrounded by skyscrapers.
This is a realistic counter-attack (and theoretically easy).
Even if the penalty were death, a new inmate would be coerced to grab the package under threat of a worse death.