Army Drones Over Chiang Mai

[lexilis]

For the past 4 or 5 days every morning at about 9:00 I have heard the unmistakable sound of a large scale drone going slowly over head. I am not talking about civilian hobbyists size, but a military scale. Each time I would go outside to see but never could see it, until this morning. I saw it going directly overhead. Flying much higher than I would of thought. Couple of thousand feet I would guess. Military drone. A little googling revealed that the Royal Thai Army has 4 Hermes 450 drones from the Israeli company Elbit and also that the Air Force also has 4 Aerostar drones (from a different Israeli company). Both types are about the size of the US Predator drones. I have no idea what the Army/AF is doing. Maybe they are using the stabilized camera system to look for large groups of people violating the stay-at-home policy. I presume the drones are not armed!

[Trujillo]

What stay-at-home policy? 

[taotoo]

I think I've seen one of these - are they surprisingly loud?

[Puchaiyank]

So many cameras...now drones!

Very disconcerting...

 

We may one day hear of people being apprehended by police for visa violations...having been spotted using drones with facial recognition capability...scary stuff...

[holy cow cm]

Please keep us updated and get a pic if you can. Very concerning. 

[HaoleBoy]

39 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

So many cameras...now drones!

Very disconcerting...

 

We may one day hear of people being apprehended by police for visa violations...having been spotted using drones with facial recognition capability...scary stuff...

I think with people wearing face masks the use of AI and facial recognition is out the window ???? ... 

[Farma]

2 minutes ago, HaoleBoy said:

I think with people wearing face masks the use of AI and facial recognition is out the window ???? ... 

Don't worry...china's got that covered already

Quote

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facial-recognition-idUSKBN20W0WL

[johng]

2 minutes ago, HaoleBoy said:

I think with people wearing face masks the use of AI and facial recognition is out the window ???? ... 

I saw a news article about a Chinese computer scientist  who say he has a new AI algorithm that can still detect faces even with face masks on !!

[johng]

45 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

people being apprehended by police for visa violations

They already have shiny new BMW "smart" cars for that ????

[lexilis]

Here is picture of the Army's drone. I think this is the type I saw this morning.

I do not think these can be armed. Only for surveillance. The dome below is the stabilized camera system. For tactical military use, not enough resolution for facial recognition from several thousand feet up.

[timendres]

If you buy toys, you need to play with them...

[ravip]

Nothing to worry, if on the correct side of the law.

If not, it can be quite unnerving, especially at a time like this, might drive one to the brink of sanity... very true.

[1FinickyOne]

1 hour ago, Puchaiyank said:

We may one day hear of people being apprehended by police for visa violations...having been spotted using drones with facial recognition capability...scary stuff...

not so scary if your visa is in order... 

[ravip]

18 minutes ago, Farma said:

Don't worry...china's got that covered already

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facial-recognition-idUSKBN20W0WL

So 'they' develop new things in additions to copying stuff?

4 minutes ago, timendres said:

If you buy toys, you need to play with them...

Some are getting nervous, seeing the children at play!

[simon43]

...I presume the drones are not armed!

 

Assume nothing!  ????

[Trujillo]

I saw a Thai Airforce Aero L-39 Albatros training jet fly over today particularly low. Later another (or the same one) came by higher. 

 

My guess is that is what you saw. 

 

Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble. ...

[Puchaiyank]

9 minutes ago, kenk24 said:

not so scary if your visa is in order... 

So you do not care if cameras watch your every move?

[elliss]

13 minutes ago, kenk24 said:

not so scary if your visa is in order... 

 

             Maybe checking where my wife is, down the village again ? ...555

 

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by elliss

[kekalot]

they should put FLIR cameras on those and find the idiots setting fires at night, easy to spot them with that they are white spots

 

[AlexRich]

Look out for one of those submarines in the moat.

[1FinickyOne]

6 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

So you do not care if cameras watch your every move?

you know, not that much really as there is no chance that I will rob someone else's house and they may catch someone attempting to rob mine... I don't have any problem meeting visa requirements and don't break laws... you have legal issues? I doubt it... but. 

[1FinickyOne]

8 minutes ago, elliss said:

 

             Maybe checking where my wife is, down the village again ? ...555

 

 

if you find mine, let me know... 

[cyril sneer]

drink indoors guys

[lexilis]

30 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

I saw a Thai Airforce Aero L-39 Albatros training jet fly over today particularly low. Later another (or the same one) came by higher. 

 

My guess is that is what you saw. 

Then you would be wrong. The L-39 are jet powered. This was most definitely propeller. The sound is unmistakable. In a previous life I heard US Predators a lot.  

[lee b]

54 minutes ago, lexilis said:

Here is picture of the Army's drone. I think this is the type I saw this morning.

I do not think these can be armed. Only for surveillance. The dome below is the stabilized camera system. For tactical military use, not enough resolution for facial recognition from several thousand feet up.

WOW, when i heard drone I was completely thinking of a diffrent thing. This things huge !

[spiekerjozef]

You should be worried if they are US army drones.

Especially when they're flying over markets.

[spiekerjozef]

It's their new beamer tracking down all dirty farang.

[OneeyedJohn]

8 minutes ago, lee b said:

WOW, when i heard drone I was completely thinking of a diffrent thing. This things huge !

Me too, the last serious drone I came across a couple of years ago was something I saw on the backseat of my friends car. He said it cost 30,000 baht, so I thought that was serious for a "toy".

That thing in the picture is summat else.

 

[CGW]

46 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble.

Are there really still sheeple out there using this statement ????

Behave yourselves people its all for your own good! Their is no ulterior motive - trust us ????

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Maybe they are going after arsonists.