Russian Yacht Attempts to Steal Drone

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Long story short: Guy flies drone around Russian Megayacht, guys appear on deck and use some kind of drone disabling device, yacht dispatches a smaller boat to grab it. Guy has no visual but somehow gets control, flies back to his boat. Wacky stuff.


Guy's name is Roman Abramovich. I remember his name because he has a private A340...
 
Cool, where can I get one of those drone disabling devices?
 
overdrive148 said:
Long story short: Guy flies drone around Russian Megayacht, guys appear on deck and use some kind of drone disabling device, yacht dispatches a smaller boat to grab it. Guy has no visual but somehow gets control, flies back to his boat. Wacky stuff.


Guy's name is Roman Abramovich. I remember his name because he has a private A340...
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Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Like he said, he was in a place with few laws and decided to poke at people with a lot more juice than he has.

If he was in international waters, guess yacht guy could have considered the drone a possible hostile act and reacted with a good bit more force?

Sitting in international waters in a 200million something dollar yacht
 
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I know nothing about boating or maritime law, but he looked awfully close to land to be in international waters...
 
Mtns2Skies said:
I know nothing about boating or maritime law, but he looked awfully close to land to be in international waters...
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Agreed, drone dude said it was international waters?
Even if it wasn't, you're in a third world country, flying over a expensive boat like that, if it were me I'd be concerned I was being scouted out by the drone, seems reasonable downing that drone in that situation.
 
I've parked next to RA's ride (P4-MES). I've also used his yacht as a visual aid to entering a traffic pattern.
 
They're even selling "drone loads" for shotguns now.
 
flyingron said:
They're even selling "drone loads" for shotguns now.
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Haven’t we already covered here that Amazon drones will just be called, “Skeet shooting with prizes...”?
 
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