Illegal or not, people do things they shouldn’t. I’m surprised we’ve never seen a drone interfering at the Super Bowl or buzzing a golfer this weekend at Augusta. Seems like they could fly in from a long way away, zip out and dodge any police and even land far away if piloted from a moving car. Almost impossible to catch mid flight. So why hasn’t some nefarious individual done this yet? Transponder type identification on those things?
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There are drone countermeasures on the market, for one.
Consider the following.
You want to fly your drone without permission over a pro ball game. You fly it primarily by waypoint/GPS to the stadium a mile or so away.
If it encounters any number of a wide variety of countermeasures, the following two scenarios become extremely likely.
a) Your drone is lost, and you worry for months that you will be arrested.
b) Your drone is lost, and you are eventually arrested.
So back to the being illegal part. Let’s say you don’t care about repercussions. This is one way narcotics are smuggled into prisons. Drones with pilots that probably hope to not get arrested, but accept it as a risk of the job.
So aside from countermeasures like targeted jammers/rf rifle type weapons, net guns, trained birds, etc… not much to stop you.
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